Co-operation in a System of Distributed Cognition or How to Co-operate with Diverse Knowledge

Irma Bogenrieder

Chapter 10 in The Future of Knowledge Management, 2006, pp 205-216 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Since the importance of multifunctional teams for innovation has been recognized, there has been an ongoing discussion with regard to how diverse knowledge of the functional specialists should be combined and how cooperation should take place. In this chapter, I argue that a multifunctional team should be considered a distributed cognitive system. Such a distributed system should satisfy at least two requirements: shared location knowledge and developing a shared representation. The aim of this chapter is to conceptualize the processes whereby these requirements could be realized. These processes are described as joint speech acts. ‘Speech Act Theory’ conceptualizes language use as a type of social interaction. This theory is used to explain the development of location knowledge and shared interpretation.

Keywords: Strategic Management Journal; Transactive Memory; Epistemic Community; Shared Representation; Mutual Knowledge (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230371897_11

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