ABSTRACT
This final part looks at both conceptual and practical developments in work innovations intended to overcome spatial and organisational constraints. In Chapter 8 by Nic Beech, George Cairns and Gerry Kincaid, the focus is on the role of ICTs in supporting learning across physical and social barriers. The authors seek to overcome the common dichotomies in approaches to knowledge management, such as between tacit and explicit, and individual and shared knowledge. They note that while much attention has been paid to the psychological context of knowledge and meaning generation, little consideration has been given to the physical learning setting. They note, moreover, that a general split has occurred in the management literature between discussion of the social and physical environments of work. One consequence of this has been an under-assessment of the role that workplace design plays in terms of the generation and dissemination of knowledge.
