ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Market Environment, Transactive Memory, Knowledge Management
Document Summary
Knowledge management technology as a stage for strategic self-presentation: implications for knowledge sharing in organizations (leonardi & treem 2012) This articles studies why is it so difficult for organisations to capture, store and share the employee"s individual expertise. The article based their studies on the social construction of expertise and develops two theories: 1) the theory of transactive memory systems, 2) the theory of self-representation in computer-mediated environments. In conclusion, the data mentions that proactive self-representations can trigger behaviours of strategic self-representation across the organisation. Once develop, knowledge belongs to a person moves with the person as he/she moves across context and changes with unique respect to the person as his/her practices change. Multiple people can possess equivalent knowledge about a given topic their success at translating the knowledge into visible display that others can use as the basis for their attributions allows for the social construction expertise.
