Work Design in Knowledge-Based Network Organizations: Facilitating Supply Chain Knowledge Flows via Network Entrepreneurship

We introduce social network theory as a way of understanding work design, which can facilitate knowledge flows in knowledge based network organizations (e.g. supply chain network). We introduce a typology of "work design network" to view work design as a strategic option of creating and recreating knowledge network; then we discuss what type of work design can facilitate more network entrepreneurial activities so that the resulting work networks can be more agile, adaptable and easy to achieve collective alignment.