“Some bodies of knowledge emerge over time in a process of coevolution with the location in which they are embedded.”

—  Jonas Ridderstråle

Julian Birkinshaw, Robert Nobel, and Jonas Ridderstråle. "Knowledge as a contingency variable: do the characteristics of knowledge predict organization structure?." Organization science 13.3 (2002): 274-289.

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