Role of Language in Organisational Knowledge Creation and Exploitation

Organisational knowledge and knowledge management play a central role within the current discourse on the "theory of the firm". Within the boundaries of a social "micro-system" such as the firm, however, knowledge flows are transferred as well as are formulated by language mechanisms. It follows then that language, conceptualised not only in its oral / written but also in its symbolic instantiation, is a critical factor that needs to be taken into account.
This project seeks to bring language into the forefront of our understanding on how is knowledge created and exploited by organisations, based on the following fundamental assumption: language not only reflects the existing accumulated knowledge, but at the same time defines the "limits" of knowledge within the process of its being created.Role of Language in Organisational Knowledge Creation and Exploitation Communication Adaptability. All the skills already mentioned cannot be applied prescriptively. Depending on the context, the...