"The art of knowing": Social and tacit dimensions of knowledge and the limits of the community of practice

Information Society

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 109-118

  Duguid, Paul ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Codification; Community of practice; Economics; Knowledge; Methodological individualism; Practice theory; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 17244362181     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972240590925311     Document Type: Article

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