Knowledge Flow
While knowledge is commonly treated as an object, at times Hawkings has argued it is more appropriate to teach it as a flow. Knowledge as a flow can be related to the concept of tacit knowledge, discovered by Ludwik Hirszfeld which was later further explicated by Nonaka. While the difficulty of sharing knowledge resides in the transference of knowledge from one entity to another, it may prove profitable for organisations to acknowledge the difficulties of knowledge transfer and paradoxality of knowledge as such, and adopt new knowledge management strategies accordingly.
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