Many modern organizations can be seen as network organizations. Their participantsare individuals as well as organizations, they cooperate in distributed teams.Especially in knowledge-intensive domains (service engineering, consulting, etc.)project teams form with participants from very...

Virtuelle Organisationen bilden durch die Ihnen eigene Heterogenität und Auto-nomie der beteiligten Partner ein besonders anspruchsvolles Feld für technische Unterstützungsmöglichkeiten des Wissensmanagements. Wir leiten in diesem Bei-trag das Konzept der "Knowledge Community" bzw....

Virtuelle Organisationen zeichnen sich vor allen Dingen durch vier Eigenschaftender Organisationsmitglieder aus. Autonomie, hoher Grad an Heterogenität, räumlicheVerteiltheit und starke Nutzung vernetzter Computer. Dabei etabliert sich die virtuelleSphäre in der Wahrnehmung der Akteure auch...

In this contribution we discuss possible approaches to exploring new directions in support for knowledgemanagement with computers. We consider networked computers in their role as communication media, andlook at three perspectives on communication support for knowledge management: communication...

CSCL at the workplace is subject to the special characteristics of a situation where learning is not the primary taskof the learners. The gap between the goal to work efficiently and the need to increase qualification and skills is evenwider in organizations which operate in knowledge-intensive...

Computerunterstütztes Lernen am Arbeitsplatz unterliegt speziellen Charakteristikeneiner Situation, in der das Hauptaugenmerk der Lernenden nicht auf das Lernengerichtet ist. Die Kluft zwischen dem Ziel der Arbeitseffizienz und dem Bedürfnis,Qualifikationen und Fähigkeiten zu steigern, ist...

The „OlViO“ project1 deals with knowledge management and e-learning asintegral parts of organizational learning in virtual organizations. Some of theproblems encountered in classical organizations become even harder in virtualorganizations because their members are distributed and cooperate...

In diesem Beitrag beschreiben wir, welche Ideen und Zielen wir mit der Schaffungund Unterstützung von Knowledge Communities im Kontext des Projektes„Olvio - Organisationales Lernen in virtuellen Organisationen“ verbinden. Wirbeschreiben dazu kurz die Metapher der Wissenslandschaft, gehen...

The Answer Garden supports knowledge sharing in two intertwined ways: by making relevant information retrievable and by mediating access to people with knowledge. We present a case study in which the Answer Garden approach was applied to encourage knowledge sharing in maintenance engineering of...

Knowledge is an important resource in economy these days. It is typically distributed among different actors and embodied in various artefacts (cf. Saloman 1993; Hutchins 1995; Ackerman and Halverson 1998). So, on the level of national economies as well as on the level of an individual organizations, it...