This article addresses the emergence of networks of practice and the role of knowledge sharing via knowledge portals. Its focus is on factors that stimulate the successful emergence of networks of practice. Literature onknowledge management and communities of practice suggest the preexistence of...

From the beginning of the 1990s, the business world has been talking about Knowledge Management (KM). Information Technologies (network technologies and local databases) have provided new tools to better perform the activity of using (codify and store) and sharing knowledge (modern Knowledge...