Building a Knowledge Share Culture in a Virtual Organization. Case Study for VRL-KCiP NoE

The knowledge-sharing culture is a type of organizational culture in which knowledge, in all its diversity and representations, is willingly made available and effectively utilized for realizing the mission and goals of the organization. The increasing attention given in the last years to knowledge management in organization, in particular to the valuing of the role of knowledge-management practices in creating a rich information knowledge environment, infrastructure and resource for learning, has also generated considerable discussion centering on how effective knowledge management might be enabled, and how a knowledge sharing culture might be established. In the following, we discuss some important aspects for building the knowledge sharing culture in a virtual organization and we shall debate the case of the Virtual Research Laboratory for a Knowledge Community in Production (www.vrl-kcip.org). The main aspects of the discussion are: (1) From Individual Knowledge to the Organizational Knowledge. The Case of VRL-KCiP; (2) Building a Knowledge Sharing Culture in the VRL-KCiP NoE Organization; (3) Knowledge creation process – the core of building the VRL-KCiP knowledge-share culture; (4) Final Comments and Conclusions.