The adoption of radical and incremental innovations: an empirical analysis
Management Science
Information systems in organization theory: a review
Critical issues in information systems research
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Knowledge Assets: Securing Competitive Advantage in the Information Economy
Knowledge Assets: Securing Competitive Advantage in the Information Economy
Managing Knowledge Work
Knowledge Reuse for Innovation
Management Science
The open source software phenomenon: Characteristics that promote research
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Toward a Theory of Knowledge Reuse: Types of Knowledge Reuse Situations and Factors in Reuse Success
Journal of Management Information Systems
The quality of group tacit knowledge
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Design issues for knowledge artifacts
Knowledge-Based Systems
Code Reuse in Open Source Software
Management Science
Information Technology and the Changing Fabric of Organization
Organization Science
MIS Quarterly
EGOVIS'11 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Electronic government and the information systems perspective
Knowledge risks in organizational networks: An exploratory framework
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Editorial: Strategic information systems: Reflections and prospectives
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
Information systems strategy: Past, present, future?
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
How does social software change knowledge management? Toward a strategic research agenda
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
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Organization scholars differ in their understanding and application of the construct of ''knowledge'' in theorizing and empirical research. Over the past years, two perspectives have become prevalent in organization science. The individualist perspective assumes the locus of knowledge is people who learn, and that knowledge cannot extend beyond the physical limits of human beings. The collectivist perspective assumes the locus of knowledge is collective. Collective entities accumulate knowledge through forms of social learning. Boundaries of knowledge are drawn around social entities-groups, communities, networks, and organizational units, etc. Recent work in management and organization science has accentuated the differences, and argued against the widespread adoption of a collectivist perspective. This argument holds implications for information systems research. The current paper reviews selected contributions on the locus of knowledge, presents an argument for a combined collectivist and individualist perspective, and outlines future directions for information systems research. Drawing on two significant examples, I show that information systems research has a strategic role to play in greatly advancing this combined perspective.