EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION OF KNOWLEDGE: SEEKING OPTIMIZATION IN ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING

Year 2016, , 33 - 48, 01.06.2016

Serkan Gürsoy

https://doi.org/10.14514/BYK.m.21478082.2016.4/1.33-48

Abstract

The phenomenon of global competition and the critical importance of knowledge in terms of explore and exploit force organizations to combine and balance different activities and tools in order to be adapting the environment and being sustainable. Not only the characteristics of knowledge but also features of social capital carry the world business from individual actions to group actions in a network and/or cluster. This study is focused on requirements of organization in order to be efficient learner as well as efficient absorber. The contradictions of the having both identities are given in the study in the frame of exploration and exploitation activity

Keywords

Exploration, exploitation, knowledge, learning

BİLGİNİN EDİNİMİ VE YORUMLANMASI: ÖRGÜTSEL ÖĞRENMEDE OPTİMİZASYON ARAYIŞI

Abstract

Küresel rekabet olgusu ile -arama ve kullanma anlamında- bilginin kritik önemi, çevreye uyum ve sürdürülebilir olmak adına, örgütleri farklı aktiviteler ve araçları birleştirme ve dengeleme konusunda zorlamaktadır. Yalnızca bilginin karakteri değil, sosyal sermayenin özellikleri de dünya iş piyasasını bir ağ ve/veya küme yapısı içinde bireysel işlemlerden topluluk işlemlerine doğru hareket ettirmektedir. Bu çalışma örgütlerin soğurabildikleri kadar etkin birer öğrenici olabilmeleri için gereksinimleri üzerine yoğunlaşmıştır. Her iki kimliğe birde sahip olmanın doğurduğu çelişkiler çalışmada arama ve kullanma aktiviteleri çerçevesinde verilmiştir

Keywords

Bilgi, öğrenme, sürdürülebilirlik, sosyal sermaye

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