Inter-project learning: processes and outcomes of knowledge codification in project-based firms |
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| Authors: | Andrea Prencipe Fredrik Tell |
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| Institution: | a CoPS Innovation Centre, SPRU, University of Sussex, Mantell Building, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RF, UK;b Department of Management and Economics, Linköping University, SE-58183 Linköping, Sweden |
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| Abstract: | In this paper, we argue that the literature on knowledge codification has been overly concerned with the economic properties of its outcomes, neglecting the importance of its underlying learning processes. Following Zollo and Winter Organisation Science, 2001, in press], the paper distinguishes three learning processes: experience accumulation, knowledge articulation and knowledge codification and suggests a framework to analyse the learning abilities of project-based firms. We propose that mechanisms for inter-project learning draw upon these learning processes and can be found at various levels of the project-based firm. Using empirical evidence from six case studies, we discern three empirical patterns, that we defined learning landscapes, of such mechanisms. Implications for the literature and practice of knowledge codification are discussed. |
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| Keywords: | Project-based firm Organisational learning Firm Codified knowledge |
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