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Recently, there has been a tendency in many industries to form
collaborative projects with the objective of creating value for
customers. Flow of resources, especially knowledge, is quite common
among actors of a project network. However, disparate knowledge has
to be integrated in the network in order to accomplish project
objectives. Due to the paucity of literature on how the actors of a
project network integrate their specialized knowledge; this study
undertakes the task of examining the process of knowledge
integration in a large project network. Based on the existing
literature, a conceptual framework for knowledge integration was
developed and, subsequently, a longitudinal study of a large network
was designed to observe the phenomenon. The study revealed
interesting insights into the dynamics of knowledge integration by
suggesting that knowledge identification is an important subprocess
and how it influences the later subprocesses of knowledge
integration.
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