E. Davenport
New knowledge and micro-level online organization: 'communities of practice' as a development framework
Davenport, E.; Hall, H.
Authors
H. Hall
Contributors
R Sprague
Editor
Abstract
The role of communities of practice in knowledge creation is recognized in a number of contexts. The authors take a socio-technical perspective and identify four characteristics of such communities: situated learning, situated action, distributed cognition and social infrastructure. These are combined into a loosely normative framework to define and analyze communities of practice at the level of online micro-organization. The framework is applied to three development projects: a reference service, a virtual enterprise initiative and a simulation of an electronic shopping mall. The authors discuss its potential in explaining and stimulating new knowledge in micro-level online work environments
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Davenport, E., & Hall, H. (2001, January). New knowledge and micro-level online organization: 'communities of practice' as a development framework. Presented at Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
Conference Name | Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences |
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Start Date | Jan 6, 2001 |
End Date | Jan 6, 2001 |
Publication Date | Aug 7, 2002 |
Deposit Date | Jul 5, 2010 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 5, 2010 |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 4 |
Book Title | Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences |
ISBN | 0769509819 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1109/hicss.2001.926353 |
Keywords | "Communities of practice"; knowledge management; organizational knowledge; online organization; |
Public URL | http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3277 |
Publisher URL | http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2001.926353 |
Contract Date | Jul 5, 2010 |
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