The objective of the paper is to propose a seasemaking model of knowledge in organizations that identifies different types of knowledge at four sensemaking levels: i) personal knowledge at the intra-subjective level of an individual; ii) collective knowledge at the inter-subjective level; iii) organizational knowledge at the generic-subjective level; and iv) knowledge embedded in culture at the extra-subjective level. Characteristics of each knowledge type are described, together with the ways knowledge is continuously (reproduced and used at a particular sensemaking level as well as constituted by knowledge types from other levels. The paper briefly refers to the application of the model in two empirical studies of knowledge management which demonstrated its relevance in practice and from which new research questions have been raised.
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