Discontinuity in organisations: identifying business environments affecting efficiency of knowledge flows in Product Lifecycle Management

• Main Authors: Ibrahim, Rahinah, Paulson, Boyd C.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Inderscience Publishers 2008
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40418/1/Discontinuity%20in%20organisations%20identifying%20business%20environments%20affecting%20efficiency%20of%20knowledge%20flows%20in%20Product%20Lifecycle%20Management.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/40418/; http://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJPLM.2008.019972

We conducted an ethnographic study on an affordable housing developer to understand why knowledge losses recur despite investments in Knowledge Management (KM) systems by property developers. We found four operating environmental characteristics – multiple concurrent and sequential phases, discontin...