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The changing face of knowledge

Nancy M. Dixon (Nancy M. Dixon is with The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.)

The Learning Organization

ISSN: 0969-6474

Article publication date: 1 December 1999

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Abstract

A change is occurring in how people think about who in the organization has credible and valuable knowledge that the organization can use to solve its difficult problems. This shift is a movement away from the idea that knowledge is found only in a select group of experts or “best” practitioners and toward the idea that useful knowledge is distributed throughout the whole of an organization. Knowledge‐sharing systems at Ford, British Petroleum and Lockheed‐Martin reflect this change.

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Dixon, N.M. (1999), "The changing face of knowledge", The Learning Organization, Vol. 6 No. 5, pp. 212-216. https://doi.org/10.1108/09696479910299929

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MCB UP Ltd

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