A New Framework for Organizational Knowledge That Enables Critical Justification

Knowledge is defined as "justified true belief", but both justification and truth are paid very little attention by the Knowledge Management field. The paper reviews the justification methods that organizations employ de-facto - positivism, conventionalism and pragmatism, and discusses the...

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Main Author: Faran, Doron
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Case studies
Conventions
Correspondence
Critical thinking
Epistemology
Forecasting techniques
Knowledge management
Methods
Ontology
Organization development
Positivism
Pragmatism
Rationalism
Studies
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Summary:Knowledge is defined as "justified true belief", but both justification and truth are paid very little attention by the Knowledge Management field. The paper reviews the justification methods that organizations employ de-facto - positivism, conventionalism and pragmatism, and discusses their weaknesses. The method of critical rationalism (CR) is then presented as a remedy for these weaknesses, despite the opposition the method faces from organizational experts. A new knowledge framework that realigns the canonical theories of organizational knowledge is constructed; the main argument in this paper is that the framework does enable CR. The implementation of CR is then demonstrated by a case study. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:2048-8963
2048-8971