In this paper, we treat OL as the process of organizational
knowledge (re)construction. Emphasizing the construction
of collective knowledge is in line with other recent contributions to the field [12][49][55] and is inspired
by the social constructivist approach to knowledge [SI
[25][62]. Central is the way through which individual or
local knowledge is ‘incorporated’ into collective knowledge
or organizational knowledge. We refer to organizational
knowledge as practices, procedures, stories, technologies,
collective opinions, paradigms, frames of references
etc., through which organizations are constructed
and through which they operate. What is important is that
organizational knowledge is independent from the indi-
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vidual actor. This is similar to the position of Attewel [4]
who argues that “the organization learns only insofar as
individual skills and insights become embodied in organizational
routines, practices, and beliefs that outlast the
presence of the originated individual”.