Article
Published papers, tacit competencies and corporate management of the public/private character of knowledge
Industrial and Corporate Change
(1995)
Abstract
This paper focuses on the movement of scientific and technological knowledge. It explores companies' reasons for publishing in the scientific and technical literature, reasons that turn on the need to link with other research organisations. The analysis begins by establishing that firms do indeed publish. Such publishing mediates links with other organisations, serving to signal the presence of tacit knowledge and to build the technical reputation necessary to engage in the barter-governed exchange of scientific and technical knowledge. Similar processes are seen in other areas of technical knowledge exchange.
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Publication Date
1995
Publisher Statement
This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Industrial and Corporate Change following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version D. Hicks (1995) "Published papers, tacit competencies and corporate management of the public/private character of knowledge, Industrial and Corporate Change 4:401-424 is available online at: http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/4/2/401.
Citation Information
Diana Hicks. "Published papers, tacit competencies and corporate management of the public/private character of knowledge" Industrial and Corporate Change Vol. 4 Iss. 2 (1995) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/diana_hicks/19/