Power and knowledge negotiations in a collectivity of practice: From peripheralization to epistemological suspicion

Tutkimustuotos: ArtikkeliTieteellinenvertaisarvioitu

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Abstrakti

Knowledge co-creation at the boundaries of communities of practice (CoPs) can lead to heightened tensions and power struggles. This study examines how power struggles among CoPs can begin to structure knowledge creation processes. Drawing on a qualitative case study of a new medical research project, the study shows how power and knowledge negotiations became manifested through conflicting discursive positioning and coercive power affecting knowledge co-creation efforts. One CoP adopted an authoritative leader role, prioritized their own problem definition and knowledge creation process, and engaged in the peripheralization of other CoPs. The power and discursive moves prevented the development of shared problems and interconnected practices contributing to epistemological suspicion among the participating CoPs. The study offers new insights to research on power dynamics in situated learning and knowing by problematizing the relationship between localized practices and emerging interconnected practices, by shedding light on how discursive positioning and coercive power operate together, and by developing peripheralization and epistemological suspicion as potential explanations for how and why knowledge workers struggle to act on opportunities for knowledge co-creation.

AlkuperäiskieliEnglanti
Sivut502-524
JulkaisuMANAGEMENT LEARNING
Vuosikerta53
Numero3
Varhainen verkossa julkaisun päivämäärä14 elok. 2021
DOI - pysyväislinkit
TilaJulkaistu - 1 heinäk. 2022
OKM-julkaisutyyppiA1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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  • Yleinen päätöstiede
  • Strategy and Management
  • Management of Technology and Innovation

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