'The Art of Knowing': Social and Tacit Dimensions of Knowledge and the Limits of the Community of Practice

Community, Economic Creativity, and Organization

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Duguid, Paul ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Codification; Economics; Methodological individualism; Polanyi; Practice theory; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 70649094107     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199545490.003.0004     Document Type: Chapter

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