Chris Kimble and Isabelle Bourdon Abstract: This paper explores the contribution of communal structures such as Communities of Practice (CoPs) on Intra-organizational Knowledge Management (KM). First, we look at intra organizational knowledge management and explore the role that information systems can play. We introduce the idea of "Systèmes d'Aide à la Gestion des Connaissances" SAGC (Systems...

background and purpose: research in medical science, as in all other fields of science, is necessary in order to maintain and improve the public health. this is achievable only by researchers and faculty members. this study is attempt o identify intra-organizational factors that influence research planning and related interventions in tabriz medical university. methods: in this descriptive cros...

This study examines how business units manage the ratio of realized to potential absorptive capacity and reveals how absorptive capacity drives performance differences. Results from 462 business units within 150 branches show that cross-functional interfaces, participation and jobrotation especially enhance a unit’s potential absorptive capacity. Formalization and socialization tactics particul...

Aiming to explore the factors that potentially determine the continued reading behavior of users on intra-organizational blogging systems, this paper proposes a group-level model that consists of constructs regarding structural, relational, and cognitive social capital. The model is empirically tested with system record data collected from a large telecommunications company. Testing results ill...

The aim of this paper was to evaluate the risk level for both intra-organizational cultures and for different industries in implementing an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. This study adopts the Fuzzy Analytic Network Process (FANP) method to assess ERP implementation risks, which were categorized into four dimensions: management and execution, software system, users, and technology p...