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- ItemOrganisational knowledge and justification – a conceptual analysis of the practice-based perspective(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03) Van Heerden, Ilze; Kinghorn, Johann; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Information Science.ENGLISH SUMMARY : In this research the practice-based approach to the justification of organisational knowledge is investigated with the specific objective to contribute to a conceptually clearer understanding of the theoretical construct of justification in the context of Knowledge Management. Chapter 1 of the research provides a conceptual background to the research problem and aligns the interest of the research with that of theorists’ who approach justification from a practicebased perspective. The second chapter provides a detailed evaluation of the development of the justification concern in Knowledge Management theory and elaborates on the dissimilarities between the two main approaches to organisational knowledge justification. In addition this chapter elaborates on the selection criteria for the two practice-based justification theories that are considered in detail in Chapters 3 and 4 respectively. The first of these contributions, Georg von Krogh’s managerial justification theory, is discussed in Chapter 3 and pays specific attention to his conceptualisation of justification in the context of autopoiesis, constructionism and dominant logic. In Chapter 4 the pluralist justification framework proposed by Fredrik Tell is expanded on against the background of epistemological pluralism and the integration of divergent philosophical approaches in the structure and process of justification. In both chapters the contribution from each theory is considered in relation to the main implications and limitations that the theoretical framework provides to the concept of justification. Chapter 5 concludes on the overall implications of the justification construct when viewed from a practice-based theoretical perspective.