Practical Knowledge and Collaboration in Engineering

• Published in: Integrating Human Aspects in Production Management pp. 203 - 215
• Main Authors: Pöyry, Päivi, Mäkelä, Markus, Meriluoto, Jouni, Luoma, Marju
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA Springer US 2005
• Series: IFIP International Conference for Information Processing
• Subjects: Collaboration; Distributed product development; Knowledge creation; Knowledge management in engineering; Knowledge sharing

This paper presents the results of a case study conducted in networked product development organisations. In this study, the emphasis is on various dimensions of collaboration and knowledge sharing. The results indicate that knowledge is shared quite fluently in this network of collaborating partner...