" Clusters and Knowledge: Global Channels of communication And The Process of Knowledge Creation in MNCs of communication And The Process of Knowledge Creation in MNCs
Alpana Trehan, Sanjib Chowdhury
Last modified: 2007-09-08
Abstract
Clusters and Knowledge: Global Channels of Communication
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The Process of Knowledge Creation in MNCs
Track 1. Knowledge Management
Alpana Trehan
sr.lecturer,
Institute of management Studies
Devi Ahilya University
Khandwa Road Indore
INDIA
Phone:-91-731-479288(O), 5063218 ®
Fax:- 91-731-476687
e-mail:- allpanatrehaan@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
As the new millennium dawns, the role of knowledge and information has become increasingly salient in the structure, growth and organization of economic activity all around the world. The paper addresses two recent interrelated phenomena: High- tech regional knowledge clusters, and globalization of R&D activities by multinational corporations (MNCs). The paper is concerned with spatial clustering of economic activity and its relation to the spatiality of knowledge creation in various sorts of interactive learning processes. It questions the merit of the prevailing explanatory model where the realm of tacit knowledge transfer is confined to local milieus whereas codified knowledge may roam the globe almost frictionless. When doing so the paper highlights the conditions under which both tacit and codified knowledge can be exchanged locally and globally. A distinction is made between, on the one hand, the learning processes taking place among actors embedded in a community by just being there - dubbed buzz - and, on the other, the knowledge attained by investing in building channels of communication - called pipelines - to selected providers located outside the local milieu. It is argued, that the co-existence of high levels of buzz and many pipelines may provide firms located in outward looking and lively clusters with a string of particular advantages not available to outsiders. Finally, some prescriptive elements, stemming from the argument, are identified.
And
The Process of Knowledge Creation in MNCs
Track 1. Knowledge Management
Alpana Trehan
sr.lecturer,
Institute of management Studies
Devi Ahilya University
Khandwa Road Indore
INDIA
Phone:-91-731-479288(O), 5063218 ®
Fax:- 91-731-476687
e-mail:- allpanatrehaan@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
As the new millennium dawns, the role of knowledge and information has become increasingly salient in the structure, growth and organization of economic activity all around the world. The paper addresses two recent interrelated phenomena: High- tech regional knowledge clusters, and globalization of R&D activities by multinational corporations (MNCs). The paper is concerned with spatial clustering of economic activity and its relation to the spatiality of knowledge creation in various sorts of interactive learning processes. It questions the merit of the prevailing explanatory model where the realm of tacit knowledge transfer is confined to local milieus whereas codified knowledge may roam the globe almost frictionless. When doing so the paper highlights the conditions under which both tacit and codified knowledge can be exchanged locally and globally. A distinction is made between, on the one hand, the learning processes taking place among actors embedded in a community by just being there - dubbed buzz - and, on the other, the knowledge attained by investing in building channels of communication - called pipelines - to selected providers located outside the local milieu. It is argued, that the co-existence of high levels of buzz and many pipelines may provide firms located in outward looking and lively clusters with a string of particular advantages not available to outsiders. Finally, some prescriptive elements, stemming from the argument, are identified.