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Employees and Creativity: Social Ties and Access to Heterogeneous Knowledge
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Huang, Chiung-En; Liu, Chih-Hsing Sam – Creativity Research Journal, 2015
This study dealt with employee social ties, knowledge heterogeneity contacts, and the generation of creativity. Although prior studies demonstrated a relationship between network position and creativity, inadequate attention has been paid to network ties and heterogeneity knowledge contacts. This study considered the social interaction processes…
Descriptors: Creativity, Employees, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Management
The Role of a Facilitated Online Workspace Component of a Community of Practice: Knowledge Building and Value Creation for NASA
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Davey, Bradford Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of an online workspace component of a community in the work of a community of practice. Much has been studied revealing the importance of communities of practice to organizations, project success, and knowledge management and some of these same successes hold true for virtual communities of…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Space Sciences, Mixed Methods Research, Computer Mediated Communication
Web-Based Knowledge Exchange through Social Links in the Workplace
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Filipowski, Tomasz; Kazienko, Przemyslaw; Brodka, Piotr; Kajdanowicz, Tomasz – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2012
Knowledge exchange between employees is an essential feature of recent commercial organisations on the competitive market. Based on the data gathered by various information technology (IT) systems, social links can be extracted and exploited in knowledge exchange systems of a new kind. Users of such a system ask their queries and the system…
Descriptors: Expertise, Informal Education, Information Technology, Workplace Learning
Informal Learning in Work Environments: Training with the Social Web in the Workplace
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Garcia-Penalvo, Francisco J.; Colomo-Palacios, Ricardo; Lytras, Miltiadis D. – Behaviour & Information Technology, 2012
The Internet and its increasing usage has changed informal learning in depth. This change has affected young and older adults in both the workplace and in higher education. But, in spite of this, formal and non-formal course-based approaches have not taken full advantage of these new informal learning scenarios and technologies. The Web 2.0 is a…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Informal Education, Work Environment, Workplace Learning
Knowledge Management in Consultancies and High-Tech Companies: A Social Systems Perspective
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Kasper, Helmut; Muhlbacher, Jurgen; Muller, Barbara – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2008
In dealing with Knowledge Management (KM) literature, we have to diagnose three essential points: first, we have detected a lack of comprehensive theoretical models based on "grand theories", secondly, we have discovered an overemphasis of "good" values, like openness and trust, that help organisations to learn. And thirdly, we have to recognise…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Social Systems, Models, Corporations
Western and Eastern Views on Social Networks
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Ordonez de Pablos, Patricia – Learning Organization, 2005
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to examine social networks from a Western and Eastern view. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses case study methodology to gather evidence of how world pioneering firms from Asia and Europe measure and report their social connections from a Western perspective. Findings: It examined the basic indicators…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Methods, Social Networks, Case Studies