... (hardback) © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 --> Society Information communications technology Complexity Knowledge Networks As diffusion of information communication technologies (ICT) penetrates many aspects of our lives, we find the complexity of the technology...

... lenses” deployed to operationalise and organise the empirical material (p. 54). In its appropriation by the social sciences, phenomenology is essentially concerned with the construction of meaning in social systems. Hence, Patriotta's concept of knowledge seeks to provide a link between knowledge...

...J.‐C. Spender Uncertainty, managers’ frequent companion as they guide firms towards anticipated goals, is poorly dealt with in theories of the firm. If knowledge is to be treated as the most strategic of assets, we must consider its relation to uncertainty. Knowledge suggests a degree of certainty...

...Sanjay Gosain Personal knowledge exchanges refer to Web‐based institutions that facilitate the matching of individual sources and recipients of knowledge, structure their interaction, set ground rules for price discovery and support the transfer of knowledge. While these exchanges are patterned...