Knowledge creation in network communication structures

Abstract

This paper analyzes the influence of communication structures on knowledge dynamics. Communication networks theory and methodology are combined with author’s perspective on knowledge, based on autopoiesis theory. Key concepts of network approach are contextualized according to the focus of the paper. We analyze the influence of certain structural factors in communication networks on knowledge fields emergence and development. Relational dynamics and co-evolution of cohesive subgroups in communication networks are analysed as the factors of knowledge transformations in the process of structural coupling between operationally closed distributed cognition systems.