Back in 2006 I wrote a piece on the relationship between distributed power and the successful distribution of knowledge. It demonstrated that the benefits of sharing knowledge throughout an organisation are dependent the distribution of power within the organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The full paper is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s the abstract;<\/p>\n\n\n\n [The paper] examines the relationship between power and the distribution of knowledge within an organisation. Demonstrates the importance of distributing an organisation\u2019s knowledge, power and social network connections at the operational level to allow staff to make the rapid and informed decisions required by the modern work environment, and argues the importance of encouraging staff at all levels to form their own connections to others, both internally and with other organisations. Hypothesises that the distribution of knowledge follows the power-law and can be predicted based on the number of knowledge transactions occurring.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n At the time, it was provisionally accepted for publication, but a few things happening at the time meant I had to withdraw it. Its ideas may still be useful, so I thought I\u2019d make the full paper<\/a> available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Back in 2006 I wrote a piece on the relationship between distributed power and the successful distribution of knowledge. It demonstrated that the benefits of sharing knowledge throughout an organisation are dependent the distribution of power within the organisation. The full paper is available here. Here\u2019s the abstract; [The paper] examines the relationship between power … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcher.co\/p-f\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcher.co\/p-f\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcher.co\/p-f\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcher.co\/p-f\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcher.co\/p-f\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcher.co\/p-f\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcher.co\/p-f\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcher.co\/p-f\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcher.co\/p-f\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcher.co\/p-f\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n