Recent research in organizations and firms has called for a broadening of knowledge research, including issues such as the sociology of knowledge consumption. This paper introduces preliminary frameworks for integrating knowledge production and knowledge management with the "consumption" aspects of knowledge. The social anthropological research on inalienable exchange is shown to complement potential research on knowledge consumption.
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