Organizational politics and the "process of knowing": Understanding crisis events during project-based innovation projects

摘要: Purpose – In offering a critical account of project‐based innovation projects, this paper aims to assess the creation and sharing knowledge from social constructionist perspective.Design/methodology/approach Using findings an in‐depth longitudinal study UK Government Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme, shows that ability adopt is linked efforts actors cope with uncertainties emerge crisis events when can transform their context in ways allow them overcome politicisation tasks. By conceptualising “knowledge” as process, proposes individual collective introduce new meaning not simply related propositional aspects (through acquisition systems practices), it also relies on socially embedded nature legitimating role local context.Findings To ascertain better understanding c...