Article ID: | iaor20081147 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 4 |
Start Page Number: | 310 |
End Page Number: | 318 |
Publication Date: | Nov 2006 |
Journal: | Knowledge Management Research & Practice |
Authors: | Mitchell Rebecca, Nicholas Stephen |
This paper contributes to our understanding of the process of knowledge creation in organisations. Based on a process model, the paper develops propositions relating to factors facilitating knowledge creation in cross-functional work teams. These propositions relate to the constructs of cognitive diversity, transactional memory, trans-specialist knowledge and their contribution to new knowledge development through knowledge boundary spanning.