Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences (HICSS), 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Honolulu, HI
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5509-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1530-1605
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2010.462
