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  • Increasing absorptive capacity by unlearning
    Rebernik, Miroslav ; Bradač, Barbara, 1980- ; Pušnik, Ksenja
    In the knowledge society aimed at sustainable development, the exchange of knowledge among different agents are of cruical importance. The absorptive capacity of organisation to embrace and implement ... knowledge in its environment can foster or impede the knowledge transfer. The improvement of the absorptive capacity makes individuals and organizations more capable of recognizing, accepting and exploiting new knowledge and skills. The process runs within organization as well as between organizations. To embrace the incoming knowledge and to use it productively critical mass of knowledge and skills has to be already present in the organization. Without appropriate knowledge base, new knowledge can not be absorped. In the absorption process the learning but also unlearning takes place. Learning and unlearning is permanently taken place in all knowledge areas and with all types of knowledge which makes the phenomena very complex and hard to comprehend, especially because processes are mutually dependent on the social, cultural, economic and political context which is different from country to country. This not only makes processes and tools of increasing absorptive capacity very hard to compare between countries but also call for our prudence when transferring experiential knowledge from one context to another which is especially important when we deal with internationalization of companies.
    Source: Sustainable development and global community. Vol. VII : social costs of sustainable development . (Str. [13]-17)
    Type of material - conference contribution
    Publish date - 2006
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 9567004

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