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'Best practice' development and transfer in the NHS: the importance of process as well as product knowledge.
Full Abstract
A core prescription from the knowledge management movement is that the successful management of organizational knowledge will prevent firms from 'reinventing the wheel', in particular through the transfer of 'best practices'. Our findings challenge this logic. They suggest instead that knowledge is emergent and enacted in practice, and that normally those involved in a given practice have only a partial understanding of the overall practice. Generating knowledge about current practice is therefore a precursor to changing that practice. In this sense, knowledge transfer does not occur independently of or in sequence to knowledge generation, but instead the process of knowledge generation and its transfer are inexorably intertwined. Thus, rather than transferring 'product' knowledge about the new 'best practice' per se, our analysis suggests that it is more useful to transfer 'process' knowledge about effective ways to generate the knowledge of existing practice, which is the essential starting point for attempts to change that practice.
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Author information
Author/s: Newell, Sue (S); Edelman, Linda (L); Scarbrough, Harry (H); Swan, Jacky (J); Bresnen, Mike (M);
Affiliation: Bentley College, Massachusetts, USA.
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: Health services management research : an official journal of the Association of University Programs in Health Administration / HSMC, AUPHA (Health Serv Manage Res), published in England. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Feb; vol 16 (issue 1) : pp 1-12
Dates: Created 2003/03/10; Completed 2003/03/31; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12626022, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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