Authors:
Åsa Devine
and
Michaela Sandell
Affiliation:
School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University, 351 95 Växjö and Sweden
Keyword(s):
Contextualization, De-contextualization, Knowledge Platform, Recipient Context, Source Context, Translation Theory, Vague Management Concept.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
KM Strategies and Implementations
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Learning Organization & Organizational Learning
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
In the quest for change, management at times introduces vague management concepts in organizations. The use of such a concept instigates translation journeys, which may end in affecting an organizations competitive advantage. While performance outcomes of change are pertinent, it is the journey towards change that is emphasized here based on translation theory. This study explores the intra-organizational journey of the vague concept “knowledge platform” within a business school. The empirical data originates from 102 written documents dating from 2009 to 2018 produced by faculty and departmental levels. The data coding reveals six distinct subseries which together depicts how the knowledge platform passes through phases of de-contextualization and contextualization as it travels iteratively between the source and recipient contexts.