TY  - JOUR
AB  - This paper examines the appropriation of innovations in a number of qualitative case studies through the theoretical lens of the activity based perspective on knowledge. Because knowledge is deeply embedded within its context of use, and the practices through which it is utilized, the knowledge base of most organizations is highly distributed. This means that innovation processes which are multi‐site, or cross functional in scale, are likely to involve the integration, and reconfiguration of diverse bodies of internal, organizational knowledge. This suggests that one of the dominant themes in the contemporary innovation literature, which emphasizes the extent to which they involve the integration of internal and external knowledge, requires to be re‐evaluated to take greater account of equally important processes of internal knowledge integration. Further, the embeddedness of knowledge in practice, means that the blending together of such diverse bodies’ knowledge is likely to involve processes of intensive social interaction.
VL  - 6
IS  - 3
SN  - 1460-1060
DO  - 10.1108/14601060310486235
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/14601060310486235
AU  - Hislop Donald
PY  - 2003
Y1  - 2003/01/01
TI  - Knowledge integration processes and the appropriation of innovations
T2  - European Journal of Innovation Management
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 159
EP  - 172
Y2  - 2024/04/18
ER  -