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1. Agility Revisited

Author : Neha Chatwani

Published in: Organisational Agility

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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The importance of knowledge sharing for organisational agility is indisputable. How and when knowledge is effectively shared to enable agile responsiveness is under-investigated. By defining knowledge as a dynamic human asset expressed through organisational practices and linking it to identity as a way of accounting for the agency of human action within an organisational framework, the complexity of knowledge sharing for agility’s sake is investigated. Consequently, the agility model is refined to underline the importance of organisational identity for knowledge flows.

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Title: Agility Revisited
Author: Neha Chatwani
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Organisational Agility
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-17248-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-17249-7

Copyright Year: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17249-7_1