IS KNOWLEDGE PROTECTION BEHAVIOUR DIFFERENT IN CLANS AND MARKETS? PROPOSITIONS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF “THE INFORMATION SPACE MODEL”</p>

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine how knowledge protection behaviour of organizations affects its organizational processes within the framework of the Knowledge-Based View (KBV) of the organizations. KBV studies are generally related to the processes in which organizational knowledge is created, integrated and disseminated, and organizations' ability to combine their knowledge and external knowledge and put them into practice. However, both within the organization and in inter-organizational collaborations, there is a common dilemma in the management of knowledge transfers:  These are: The need to share the knowledge and the need to protect the use of knowledge that is not intended to be shared. In Boisot's ""Information Space Model"", which is also an KBV, it is observed that the economic transactions carried out in societies differ depending on the structuring and flows of knowledge, and it is observed that institutional areas and transactional structures develop within this framework. From this point of view, the effects of the protection of knowledge on the execution of organizational operations in different transactional structures can be investigated. In this framework, the issue of how and in which direction the effect of the protection of knowledge in clan and market transactional structures on organizational operations can differ is discussed with the propositions.