Relations Between Common Understanding And Experience: Case Study Of An International Information Technology Project

This study examines the process of building common understanding in a case study of an international information technology (IT) project. A literature review situates the subject of common understanding among fields of research and identifies issues that are insufficiently explored. Our quanti- g tative and qualitative surveys in the case study reveal that common understanding relates to experience. It '51 also establishes that there are situational variations in common understanding. The theoretical implicag tions are presented about the acquisition of common understanding in diverse organisations and the cp1 relations to employee experience. It shows that the nature of common understanding shifts from inductive 44 to deductive knowledge as employees accumulate experience in international IT projects.