TY - GEN
T1 - Knowledge sourcing
T2 - 12th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2006
AU - Zhang, Yiwen
AU - Durcikova, Alexandra
AU - Brown, Susan A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the EU FP7 Project Cancer Vaccine development for Hepatocellular Carcinoma – HEPAVAC (Grant Nr. 602893); Transcan2 – HEPAMUT project; Italian Ministry of Health through Institutional “Ricerca Corrente” (LB). AP and MT are funded by HEPAVAC. AM is funded by “Ricerca Corrente”.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Organizations invest in information and communication technology (ICT) such as knowledge repositories and electronic communities of practice to augment traditional means of transferring knowledge, such as via face-to-face interactions with co-located colleagues. These systems make it possible to create a multi-modal knowledge network in which employees have a choice of which channel to use for knowledge transfer. This study investigates the sourcing side of knowledge transfer, and develops hypotheses to assess the degree to which task characteristics, knowledge characteristics and individual characteristics determine the preference for channel selection. This research contributes to theory in knowledge management as it expands our understanding of how various knowledge transfer channels are selected. The research contributes to practice by helping companies understand why employees may or may not be using the various knowledge channels available to them.
AB - Organizations invest in information and communication technology (ICT) such as knowledge repositories and electronic communities of practice to augment traditional means of transferring knowledge, such as via face-to-face interactions with co-located colleagues. These systems make it possible to create a multi-modal knowledge network in which employees have a choice of which channel to use for knowledge transfer. This study investigates the sourcing side of knowledge transfer, and develops hypotheses to assess the degree to which task characteristics, knowledge characteristics and individual characteristics determine the preference for channel selection. This research contributes to theory in knowledge management as it expands our understanding of how various knowledge transfer channels are selected. The research contributes to practice by helping companies understand why employees may or may not be using the various knowledge channels available to them.
KW - Community of practice
KW - Knowledge repository
KW - Knowledge sourcing
KW - Knowledge transfer
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84870232507
SN - 9781604236262
T3 - Association for Information Systems - 12th Americas Conference On Information Systems, AMCIS 2006
SP - 1711
EP - 1717
BT - Association for Information Systems - 12th Americas Conference On Information Systems, AMCIS 2006
Y2 - 4 August 2006 through 6 August 2006
ER -