Strategic knowledge sharing: a small-worlds perspective

This paper is about designing knowledge sharing in wicked systems. The perspective the paper takes is that of the self-organising 'small-worlds' phenomenon. Specifically, this paper argues that strategic knowledge sharing can be viewed as designing small-worlds networks so as to allow a wicked socio-technical system to self organise a coordinated strategic response to unpredictable environmental changes. The evidence used comes from the softer systems literature, biology (insect) literature and social-network literature.