| dc.description.abstract | In response to a lack of practice-based approaches to knowledge sharing, and the
call for bringing human actors, their actions and interactions to the centre stage of
organizational research, this thesis adopts a practice-lens to knowledge sharing.
The aim of the thesis is to identify how knowledge sharing practices look like
when at their best, and what role high-quality connections play in such practices.
Based on selected observations and interviews in two different organizational
settings (oil exploration and management consulting) five best practices for
knowledge sharing are identified: (1) mobilizing engagement, (2) interacting
offstage, (3) making it tangible, (4) sharing space, and (5) help giving/help
seeking. The authors find that high-quality connections play a decisive role in all
of these practices. In some cases high-quality connections enable the practices, in
other cases the practices build high-quality connections. Thus, this thesis provides
insight into how knowledge sharing practices both shape, and are shaped by, highquality
connections. Implications for theory and practice are discussed. | no_NO |
