Communities of Practice in the Distributed International Environment

@misc{citeulike:167273, abstract = {Modern commercial organisations are facing pressures which have caused them to lose personnel. When they lose people, they also lose their knowledge. Organisations also have to cope with the internationalisation of business forcing collaboration and knowledge sharing across time and distance. Knowledge Management (KM) claims to tackle these issues. This paper looks at an area where KM does not offer sufficient support, that is, the sharing of knowledge that is not easy to articulate. The focus in this paper is on Communities of Practice in commercial organisations. We do this by exploring knowledge sharing in Lave and Wenger's [1] theory of Communities of Practice and investigating how Communities of Practice may translate to a distributed international environment. The paper reports on two case studies that explore the functioning of Communities of Practice across international boundaries.}, author = {Hildreth, Paul and Kimble, Chris and Wright, Peter }, citeulike-article-id = {167273}, eprint = {cs.HC/0101012}, keywords = {case\_study, cops, cscw, km, knowledge\_management, knowledgemanagement, social-networks}, month = {January}, posted-at = {2005-04-22 11:13:53}, priority = {2}, title = {Communities of Practice in the Distributed International Environment}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.HC/0101012}, year = {2001} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:167273 L3 - citeulike-article-id:167273 N2 - Modern commercial organisations are facing pressures which have caused them to lose personnel. When they lose people, they also lose their knowledge. Organisations also have to cope with the internationalisation of business forcing collaboration and knowledge sharing across time and distance. Knowledge Management (KM) claims to tackle these issues. This paper looks at an area where KM does not offer sufficient support, that is, the sharing of knowledge that is not easy to articulate. The focus in this paper is on Communities of Practice in commercial organisations. We do this by exploring knowledge sharing in Lave and Wenger's [1] theory of Communities of Practice and investigating how Communities of Practice may translate to a distributed international environment. The paper reports on two case studies that explore the functioning of Communities of Practice across international boundaries. TI - Communities of Practice in the Distributed International Environment KW - case_study KW - cops KW - cscw KW - km KW - knowledge_management KW - knowledgemanagement KW - social-networks AU - Hildreth, Paul AU - Kimble, Chris AU - Wright, Peter PY - 2001/01/16/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.HC/0101012 ER -