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The literature of organizational knowledge reveals that firms can be regarded as knowledge-intensive systems (e.g. Newell et al. 2002). However, by this literature the epistemological assumptions have not been well clarified. Therefore, an attempt to improve the knowledge-based theory of a firm is a necessity here.
Koskinen, K. U. (2010). Autopoietic knowledge systems in project-based companies. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Koskinen, K.U. (2013). Epistemological Assumptions. In: Knowledge Production in Organizations. Springer, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00104-3_7
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