Innovation through virtual communities of Practice: motivation and constraints in the knowledge-creation process


Autoria(s): Correia, Ana Maria Ramalho; Mesquita, Anabela; Paulos, Alice
Data(s)

28/06/2012

28/06/2012

2008

Resumo

Communities of Practice are places which provide a sound basis for organizational learning, enabling knowledge creation and acquisition thus improving organizational performance, leveraging innovation and consequently increasing competitively. Virtual Communities of Practice (VCoP‟s) can perform a central role in promoting communication and collaboration between members who are dispersed in both time and space. The ongoing case study, described here, aims to identify both the motivations and the constraints that members of an organization experience when taking part in the knowledge creating processes of the VCoP‟s to which they belong. Based on a literature review, we have identified several factors that influence such processes; they will be used to analyse the results of interviews carried out with the leaders of VCoP‟s in four multinationals. As future work, a questionnaire will be developed and administered to the other members of these VCoP‟s

Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/512

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

Instituto Politécnico do Porto. Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto

Direitos

openAccess

Palavras-Chave #Virtual communities of practice #Knowledge creation #Knowledge transfer #Innovation in organizations
Tipo

article