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organizational knowledge  

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  • Organizational knowledge is a learned set of norms, shared understandings, and practices that integrates actors and artifacts to produce valued outcomes within a specific social and organizational context. As a field of study, it encompasses the means by which actors develop beliefs, behaviors, and routines that shape the organization's capabilities. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies; Organizational Knowledge]

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