TOWARD A SOCIOMATERIAL APPROACH TO KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER
Résumé
Knowledge sharing is one of the most important preoccupations of organizational
literature. Until recently, knowledge literature has largely assumed an idealist
conception of knowledge that posits the production of knowledge as disinterested and
individual endeavor. However, these insights are limited in large part because they
overlooked the way in which organizing is bound up with materiality. Based on a
sociomaterial conception of knowledge, we claim that our ways of dealing with
materiality in organization research, and especially in knowledge literature, are
conceptually problematic. We argue for an alternative approach, one that posits the
constitutive entanglement of the social and the material in everyday life. We draw on
one case study to illustrate this approach in practice and conclude that a reconfiguration
of our conception of knowledge will be useful to understand the complexity of
sociomaterial assemblages entailed in contemporary organizations.
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