The richness of diversity in knowledge creation: an interdisciplinary overview

Bonifacio, Matteo and Molani, Alessandra (2003) The richness of diversity in knowledge creation: an interdisciplinary overview. UNSPECIFIED. (In Press)

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    Abstract

    The goal of this article is to explore some of the main reasons that sustain a distributed approach to Knowledge Management, and this will be done, first, showing how, according to very different theoretical disciplines, knowledge diversity is proposed as the very source of organizational innovation and adaptability; second providing some evidence coming from major applicative domains; third proposing some considerations on the role of technology.

    Item Type: Departmental Technical Report
    Department or Research center: Information Engineering and Computer Science
    Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
    Uncontrolled Keywords: Distributed Knowledge Management, Evolutionary Theory, Theory of Complexity, Communites of Practice, Cognitivism, Constructivism, Semantic heterogeneity, Structuration Theory.
    Additional Information: To be published in J.UCS conference proceedings of the I-Know '03 Conference
    Report Number: DIT-03-030
    Repository staff approval on: 09 Dec 2003

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