“…Managerial agency (Padova and Scarso, 2012;Mueller, 2012;Kajamaa, 2011;Schwabe and Salim, 2002), characteristics of artifacts (Eppler and Pfister, 2014;Martin et al, 2012;Bosua and Venkitachalam, 2015;Jeyes and Dolphin, 2005;Brichni et al, 2014;Jiang et al, 2010;Eppler and Burkhard, 2007;Shariq, 1998), as well as knowledge brokers and boundary spanners (Hustad, 2007;Bosua and Venkitachalam, 2015;Maaninet-Olsson et al, 2008) Figure 2), the authors decided to leave these relationships out of the discussion and made the deliberate choice of not developing potential related propositions. This decision was made due to the overall aim and focus of contribution, clarity of exposition, and the relatively Postprint version of: Stefania Mariano, Yukika Awazu, (2017) "The role of collaborative knowledge building in the co-creation of artifacts: influencing factors and propositions", Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol.…”