Communities of Practice: Going Virtual

@misc{citeulike:171816, abstract = {With the current trends towards downsizing, outsourcing and globalisation, modern organisations are reducing the numbers of people they employ. In addition, organisations now have to cope with the increasing internationalisation of business forcing collaboration and knowledge sharing across time and distance simultaneously. There is a need for new ways of thinking about how knowledge is shared in distributed groups. In this paper we explore a relatively new approach to knowledge sharing using...}, author = {Kimble, C. and Hildreth, P. and Wright, P. }, citeulike-article-id = {171816}, keywords = {cops, downsizing, globalisation, km, outsourcing, social-networks, ve, virtual\_environment}, posted-at = {2005-04-27 02:21:47}, priority = {2}, title = {Communities of Practice: Going Virtual}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/kimble01communities.html} }

TY - GEN ID - citeulike:171816 L3 - citeulike-article-id:171816 N2 - With the current trends towards downsizing, outsourcing and globalisation, modern organisations are reducing the numbers of people they employ. In addition, organisations now have to cope with the increasing internationalisation of business forcing collaboration and knowledge sharing across time and distance simultaneously. There is a need for new ways of thinking about how knowledge is shared in distributed groups. In this paper we explore a relatively new approach to knowledge sharing using... TI - Communities of Practice: Going Virtual KW - cops KW - downsizing KW - globalisation KW - km KW - outsourcing KW - social-networks KW - ve KW - virtual_environment AU - Kimble, C AU - Hildreth, P AU - Wright, P UR - http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/kimble01communities.html ER -