ABSTRACT
Organization is a generic term which describes a variety of different aggregations of people and structures with a final goal. There are a variety of organizations, including corporations, governments, non-governmental organizations, not-for-profit corporations, partnerships, cooperatives, universities, and various types of the political organizations. Organizational knowledge is the collective knowledge and abilities possessed by the people who belong to an organization. Knowledge is said to be the crucial factor behind maintaining a sustainable advantage and success for companies; it is closely interlinked with organizational culture and how organizations function. Creating a collaboration or hybrid organization can be an effective strategy to gain access to new information from an intra-organizational and inter-organizational perspective. As organizations evolve, converge, and become more complex, some turn to biological theory to gain insight on how cooperation among organizations can be explained using the principles of evolution.
