Referência: ALVARENGA NETO, Rivadavia Correa Drummond de . Expanding the concept of Ba: managing enabling contexts in knowledge organizations. Perspectivas em Ciencia da Informacao, Belo Horizonte, v. 16, n. 3, p. 2-25, jul./set. 2011
Descritor(es): THE CONCEPT OF BA; BA; ENABLING CONTEXT; ENABLING CONDITIONS; ENABLING KNOWLEDGE CREATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; NONAKA
Resumo: This paper investigates and analyses the concept of ba -
or enabling context - in the fields of information science,
management/business and information systems literature
in order to understand its conceptual evolution,
discussions, applications and expansion since its
introduction in 1998 by Nonaka et al. (Nonaka and Konno,
1998; Nonaka et al., 2000; Nonaka and Toyama, 2002;
Nonaka et al., 2006). The qualitative methodology is
bibliographic and comprises - among others - the
methods of citation analysis and content analysis. A
resulting selection of 135 papers, 4 dissertations/theses
and 4 books constituted the research's final database.
Data analysis consisted of three flows of activities: data
reduction, data displays (conceptual maps) and conclusion
drawing/verification. The results point out to the
identification of four major groups of enabling conditions
- social/behavioral, cognitive/epistemic, informational and
business/managerial - which can be singly or freely
combined into different knowledge processes - creation,
sharing/transfer and use - occurring in different levels of
interactions - individual, group, organizational, interorganizational.
The conclusions suggest that the concept
of ba and its underlying concepts are indeed sine qua non
conditions for organizational knowledge creation and
innovation processes, though ba is still both theoretically
and empirically under-explored. Concerning the
management of enabling contexts in knowledge
organizations, the study revealed that the main arising
challenges rely on the implementation and development
of the issues comprised on the four groups of enabling
conditions identified, most especially social/behavioral
and business/managerial.
Endereço eletrônico: http://portaldeperiodicos.eci.ufmg.br/index.php/pci/article/viewFile/1334/917 Acessado em: 12 set. 2011
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