Document Type
Conference Paper
Rights
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence
Disciplines
Business and Management.
Abstract
This qualitative study examined how middle managers, at the micro-level, search for distributed knowledge to resolve non-routine problems, and how the organizational context, at the macro-level, influences the knowledge search effectiveness. We find that middle managers proactively search organization wide knowledge resources, thus highlighting the significance of middle managers in integrating distributed knowledge. Further, our findings show the importance of the organization to provide supporting structures. In particular, we offer evidence that effective knowledge search does not rely on repositories but that organizational design aspects and a strategy for managing knowledge that emphasizes interaction opportunities, informality, and openness can promote the search for distributed knowledge.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21427/D7PN4G
Recommended Citation
Tippmann E., Sharkey-Scott, P., Mangematin, V.: Don’t store it, search for it: How organizations can encourage middle managers to search for distributed knowledge. Paper presented at the 25th EGOS Colloquium in Barcelona, Spain – July 2009.
Funder
ABBEST Scholarship by DIT
Included in
Business Administration, Management, and Operations Commons, Strategic Management Policy Commons
Publication Details
Paper presented at the 25th EGOS Colloquium in Barcelona, Spain – July 2009.