“The Art of Knowing”: Social and Tacit Dimensions of Knowledge and the Limits of the Community of Practice
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Summary
This article challenges economists' attempts to reduce knowledge to information held by individuals and to reject tacit knowledge as mere uncodified explicit knowledge and attempts to limit the scope of community of practice analysis.
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- article
- Published
- 2005-04-01
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- 570
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- 80
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- https://openalex.org/W2013133245
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Keywords
Tacit knowledge, Sociology, Epistemology, Identity (music), Perspective (graphical)
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