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Organizing distributed knowledge for collaborative action: Structure, functioning,
and emergence of organizational transactive memory systems
Schakel, J.K.
Publication date
2013
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Schakel, J. K. (2013). Organizing distributed knowledge for collaborative action: Structure,
functioning, and emergence of organizational transactive memory systems. Vossiuspers UvA.
http://nl.aup.nl/books/9789056297381-organizing-distributed-knowledge-for-collaborative-action.html
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Organizing Distributed Knowledge
for Collaborative Action
Structure, Functioning, and Emergence of
Organizational Transactive Memory Systems
Or
ganizing Distribut
ed Kno
wledg
e
for Collabor
ativ
e Action
Jan-K
ees Schak
el
Jan-Kees Schakel
In the domain of safety and security specialized organizations often have to collaborate on an occasional basis with other organizations to head challenges that none of the partners can head (as easily) on its own. Such collaborations are temporal and often virtual in nature. One emerging perspective to study such collaborations is that of transactive memory systems (TMS). TMS are cognitive systems collaborating people develop to facilitate knowledge transfer and to contribute to people’s abilities to coordinate specialized knowledge. Developing an effective TMS may result in new organizational capabilities and services, while failure to do so is a known barrier to distributed team success. Addressing several gaps in TMS literature, in this dissertation the structure,
functioning, and emergence of TMS are being explored of temporary and geographically distributed collaborations at intra-organizational level.
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