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Creating communities of practice: scoping purposeful design

Iaquinto, Ben; Ison, Ray; Faggian, Robert - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 15 (2011) 1, pp. 4-21

Purpose – This paper seeks to scope the nature and form of practices, understandings and institutional arrangements that might contribute to the successful “design” and continuity of Communities of Practice (CoP) in a state government department in Australia. The study aims to provide...

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Participation in intra‐firm communities of practice: a case study from the automotive industry

Wolf, Patricia; Späth, Sebastian; Haefliger, Stefan - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 15 (2011) 1, pp. 22-39

Purpose – Communities of practice (CoPs) have been found to support knowledge creation by enabling knowledge sharing among experts in firms. However, some perform better than others. This paper seeks to explore what incentivizes employees to share knowledge in intra‐firm CoPs....

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Improving intranet knowledge transfer through resident engineers

Mateo, Ricardo; Tanco, Martín; Santos, Javier - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 15 (2011) 1, pp. 40-52

Purpose – This research paper aims to explore how intranet mechanisms for knowledge transfer in a multinational automotive company can be improved with the inclusion of a human interface, specifically a resident engineer. A resident engineer is an assembly line employee who spends the majority...

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Knowledge‐sharing enablers and barriers in pharmaceutical research and development

Lilleoere, Anne‐Mette; Holme Hansen, Ebba - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 15 (2011) 1, pp. 53-70

be generalized to other industries is unknown. Practical implications – The findings have implications for R&D managers …

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An innovation perspective of knowledge management in a multinational subsidiary

Amalia, Mirta; Nugroho, Yanuar - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 15 (2011) 1, pp. 71-87

Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the implementation of knowledge management in a telecommunication multinational subsidiary and to investigate factors that affect the performance as well as the impacts. Design/methodology/approach – Innovation perspective informs the identification of...

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Leveraging socio‐culturally situated tacit knowledge

Cordeiro‐Nilsson, Cheryl Marie; Hawamdeh, Suliman - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 15 (2011) 1, pp. 88-103

organizations in Singapore. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 33 top‐level managers (23 Scandinavians and ten Asians) who …

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An exploratory examination of knowledge‐ sharing behaviors: solicited and voluntary

Teng, James T.C.; Song, Seokwoo - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 15 (2011) 1, pp. 104-117

Purpose – Knowledge sharing (KS) has been a central concern in knowledge management (KM) practice and research. However, KS has remained largely a simplistic concept. This study aims to differentiate between solicited KS and voluntary KS and also to attempt to examine the role of both types of...

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Balancing knowledge strategy: codification and personalization during product development

Ajith Kumar, J.; Ganesh, L.S. - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 15 (2011) 1, pp. 118-135

Purpose – This paper aims to understand the knowledge strategies followed by product development (PD) units in Indian manufacturing firms. Design/methodology/approach – Following literature, knowledge strategy was characterized in terms of “codification” and “personalization”. A...

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Antecedents of the stage‐based knowledge management evolution

Lin, Hsiu‐Fen - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 15 (2011) 1, pp. 136-155

). Design/methodology/approach – Survey data from 241 managers (in charge of KM practices in their companies) in large Taiwanese … structured interviews and case studies of managers dealing with ongoing or recently completed KM planning projects to help … socializing and interacting with one another, thus driving KM effectiveness. Managers should strive to enable employees to propose …

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Knowledge management and organizational performance: a decomposed view

Mills, Annette M.; Smith, Trevor A. - In: Journal of Knowledge Management 15 (2011) 1, pp. 156-171

data from 189 managers and structural equation modeling to assess the links between specific knowledge management resources … knowledge management allows managers and researchers to focus on main effects but leaves little room for understanding how …

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