Knowledge Construction and Risk Induction within a Large High-Tech Firm

Author

Holford, W. David

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage., Univ. of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), Montreal, QC, Canada

fYear

2010

fDate

5-8 Jan. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

11

Abstract

An ethnographic case study of two interacting workgroups within a large North American aerospace company allowed us to propose a dialogical model describing both verbal and non-verbal interactions between group members leading towards knowledge complexification on the one hand and risk mitigation on other hand. Factors leading towards dialogical breakdown and subsequent risk induction are also presented. This study attempts to bridge the areas of knowledge creation and risk induction at the interpersonal/workgroup level.

Keywords

aerospace industry; knowledge management; risk management; team working; North American aerospace company; dialogical model; knowledge complexification; knowledge construction; nonverbal interactions; risk induction; risk mitigation; verbal interactions; workgroup interaction; Bridges; Cognition; Conference management; Control systems; Electric breakdown; Humans; Knowledge management; Research and development; Risk management; Taxonomy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences (HICSS), 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

ISSN

1530-1605

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5509-6

Electronic_ISBN

1530-1605

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2010.462

Filename

5428484