Learning from Locally Embedded Knowledge: Facilitating Organizational Learning in Geographically Dispersed Settings
研究了地理分散的组织如何克服知识本地嵌入带来的学习困难，基于跨国公司的案例，提出知识授粉过程，即专家网络通过参与不同本地实践、解嵌和再嵌知识来促进组织学习。
This article addresses the question of how geographically dispersed organizations can overcome the complications for organizational learning that result from the locally embedded character of knowledge. Based on a case study in an MNC , we identify a process of knowledge pollination, describing how a network of experts facilitates organizational learning by participating in various local practices, un‐embedding and re‐embedding knowledge between these practices. This process is a combination of learning in practice (sharing practices at various locations), network learning (using one's personal network), and organized learning (institutionalized methods of knowledge sharing). Learning in practice is the core process of creating and applying knowledge: network learning facilitates this process across different local and practical contexts and organized learning facilitates the development and extension of network learning.