Spaces of Knowing
Spaces of Knowing
This chapter focuses on the spatial dimension of learning in firms. It outlines the new thinking that stresses the powers of spatial proximity and territorial mooring, but it also seeks to transcend it by working with a view of space as non-contiguous and permeable, thereby allowing recognition of learning based on mobility and relational links at a distance. It is not assumed that knowledge fits into neat scalar or territorial bundles. Instead, drawing especially on actor-network theory, spaces of knowledge are defined as organized spaces of varying length, shape, and duration, in which knowing, depending on circumstances, can involve all manner of spatial mobilizations, including placements of task teams in neutral spaces, face-to-face encounters, global networks held together by travel and virtual communications, flows of ideas and information through the supply chain, and transcorporate thought experiments and symbolic rituals.
Keywords: organizational learning, firms, spatial proximity, territorial mooring, space, knowing, knowledge
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