This paper presents a critical review of some of the claims made for CoPs. It will address questions such as "Are CoPs really suitable for use in a business setting?" and "Can a CoP ever be truly virtual?"
NGOs need to tackle the problems of effective communication that arise from their local-global nature. This paper examines Knowledge Management (KM) practices for use with portal technologies in order to promote Communities of Practice in both local and
Virtual Teams are seen as project or task focused groups. Team membership may be relatively stable (e.g. in an established sales team) or change on a regular basis (e.g. in project teams). Members may be drawn from the same organization or from several di
In order to sustain their competitive advantage, knowledge-companies need to harness knowledge and to analyse knowledge sharing mechanisms and learning in the whole organisation.
The immensely rich culture and heritage of a country needs to be stored for posterity. But very little has been done, especially for countries in Asia and the Far East, all of whom have significant artefacts ven to this day. Unfortunately, modern society
The recently developed knowledge-based view of the firm argues that knowledge is the firm’s most valuable resource. Within this field of study, informal social networks are rapidly gaining attention as mechanisms which facilitate knowledge flows. Electr
This paper provides an overview of virtual teams in the information age, focussing on the definition of virtual teams, their salient characteristics, the communication issues they face (including information overload, geographic and social distance), th
This Working Paper is the outcome of a short study commissioned by Intercooperation on existing communities of practice (CoPs) in the development sector in India.
Review of "UNDERSTANDING THE BENEFITS AND IMPACT OF COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE" by Michael A. Fontaine and David R. Millen, Chapter 1 in Knowledge Networks: Innovation through Communities of Practice
In this study the global Information Systems academic community is viewed as a community of practice in which knowledge is resident but inadequately shared.
This paper discusses existing research and develops a theoretical model of factors that affect knowledge sharing in OLCs. The aim is to increase our understanding of the antecedents to knowledge-sharing in OLCs.
This paper provides a review of the published literature in terms of how knowledge is used, represented, defined and applied within Information Systems.
Our society has focus on life-long learning, both formal and informal, and this might mean new challenges to the librarians. How do we facilitate knowledge sharing and knowledge creation among the users?
paper is concerned with proposing a model for software experience knowledge. our model aims to strike a delicate balance between explicit and tacit knowledge
Contains links to papers on KM/CoPs that are all:(a) examples of research undertaken in the MIS Group (b) refereed as part of a book, journal or refereed conference (c) available on line
Communities of Practice are conceptually positioned as a very important and successful element of corporate Knowledge Management. By utilizing IT platforms they enable a direct connection of knowledge workers and the transfer and reuse of tacit expertise
As work becomes more knowledge-intensive, multidisciplinary and collaborative, educators must employ Knowledge Management (KM) to improve decision-making and bring about improvement within their organizations.
This paper will describe the initiatives undertaken by the ENO Project to initially establish an information and knowledge-sharing environment as an initiative towards a nuclear knowledge management system within the RCA community.
This paper outlines the basic concepts of knowledge management and e-learning and how they can be integrated and leveraged for effective online education.
L’objectif de cet article est d’apporter une contribution à la compréhension des facteurs clés de succès des systèmes de gestion des connaissances (SGC), à travers une étude qualitative menée auprès de sept grandes entreprises françaises du
This study will lead to empirically based categories concerning organisational knowledge and based on this an elaboration of a socio-pragmatic perspective on organisational knowledge.
This study tries to identify the cultural patterns in Knowledge Management. Focusing on the case of Turkish SMEs in Sweden the authors of this research shows the relation between national culture, SMEs and Knowledge Management.
A paper presented at the Second Workshop on Understanding Work and Designing Artefacts: Design for Collaboration. Communities Constructing Technology at King's Manor, University of York (March 1999).
This paper examines the nature of virtual teams and their place in the networked economy. It presents a framework for categorising virtual teams and argues that fundamental changes have taken place in the business environment which force people and organi
Directing their discussion at a general audience, Hildreth and Kimble present 24 separately authored chapters exploring the application of the concept of "Communities of Practice" to knowledge management in business or commerce organizations.
In this paper, we argue that this approach is flawed and some knowledge simply cannot be captured. A method is needed which recognises that knowledge resides in people: not in machines or documents ...
Links to Chris Kimble's, research (CMC, CSCW, Knowledge Management, Distributed Teams); teaching (MIS, CIS HI2), and administration (Computer Science, Management)
J. Vasconcelos, и C. Kimble. Online and Distance Learning: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, 5, Information Science Reference, Hershey, PA, USA, (2007)
J. Vasconcelos, и C. Kimble. Competencies in Organizational E-Learning: Concepts and Tools, Idea Group Publishing, Hershey (USA)/London (UK), July 2007.(2006)
M. Abdullah, A. Evans, C. Kimble, и I. Benest. Model-Driven Architecture: Revised and Selected Papers from European MDA Workshops MDAFA 2003 and MDAFA 2004, (2004)
M. Abdullah, A. Evans, I. Benest, и C. Kimble. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3599: MDAFA 2003/2004, Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg, September 2005.(2005)
J. Vasconcelos, P. Seixas, P. Lemos, и C. Kimble. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2005), стр. 17 - 26. Miami, USA, INSTICC, (2005)