Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe project‐based companies' knowledge production and memory development with the help of autopoietic epistemology. Design/methodology/approach – The discussion first defines the concept of a project‐based company. Then the discussion deals...

This article introduces a model with the help of which the management of businesses can evaluate what kind of a role tacit knowledge plays in their organizations. At the beginning of the article basic elements from which an individual’s competence is derived are described. After that the...

Purpose – According to the traditional “stable‐process” problem, the project‐based company's memory and project implementation cannot interact. They remain conceptually distinctly different entities, the differences stemming from epistemologically different theoretical projects....