Virtual teams formed across organisational boundaries and organised around an opportunity are a relatively new area of research. The purpose of forming such teams is new ‘knowledge creation’. The focus of this paper, therefore, is on the processes of collective ‘knowing’ resulting in novel combinations of products and services. The paper presents the preliminary results of a qualitative researc...

To uncover the mechanisms underlying the collaborative production of knowledge, we investigate a very large online Question and Answer system that includes the question asking and answering activities of millions of users over five years. We created knowledge networks in which nodes are questions and edges are the successive answering activities of users. We find that these networks have two co...

Teams are increasingly faced with obstacles that can hurt their performance. Social cognitive skills are emerging factors that that have shown the potential to influence how well team members work together. However, the interplay of transactive memory systems (TMSs) and knowledge management (KM) mechanisms within technology teams has not received much research attention. This paper examines the...

The main purposes of this article are to identify the dimensions of organisational knowledge creation strategies (EICE model: exploration, institutional entrepreneurship, combination, exploitation) and to

In this paper we give a possible model for handling uncertain information. The concept of fuzzy knowledge-base will be defined as a quadruple of any background knowledge, defined by the proximity of predicates and terms; a deduction mechanism: a fuzzy Datalog program; a connecting algorithm, which connects the background knowledge with the program and a decoding set of the program, which help u...

Open innovation is increasingly important for researchers and practitioners alike. Open innovation is closely linked to knowledge creation in that, with open innovation, knowledge inflows and outflows are exploited for innovation. In the information systems field, open innovation has been closely linked to open source software development teams. However, the literature has not yet identified ho...

This paper proposes a paradigm for managing the dynamic aspects of organizational knowledge creating processes. Its central theme is that organizational knowledge is created through a continuous dialogue between tacit and explicit knowledge. The nature of this dialogue is examined and four patterns of interaction involving tacit and explicit knowledge are identified. It is argued that while new...

Knowledge creation and creativity are important topics and have therefore received much attention in both the CSCW and other research communities. By introducing and examining the use of a creativity-enhancing prototype we encountered unnoticed, and thus unsolved, problems regarding intellectual property rights and feasible reward mechanisms. We argue in favour of a more critical look at knowle...

Although the field of Knowledge Management has notched up some significant theoretical successes over its short history, the key processes of novelty-emergence and new knowledge creation remain largely an enigma. These processes are important, however, because they inform crucial organisational activities such as change and innovation. It is our contention that theorising in this area has been ...