The Impact of Shaping on Knowledge Reuse for Organizational Improvement with Wikis

Majchrzak, Ann; Wagner, Christian; Yates, Dave

doi:10.25300/misq/2013/37.2.07

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“…One key affordance of wikis that make this possible is the collaborative publishing of content (Majchrzak et al, 2013). This allows many people to co-write and co-edit wiki content (Hasan & Pfaff, 2007) and also engage in knowledge shaping practices.…”

Section: Organizational Use Of Wikismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Others suggested that wikis allow for transparency and facilitate informed audiences in organizations (Danis & Singer, 2008), support newly-established teams or short-term activities that have no established communication channels (Grudin & Poole, 2010), democratize knowledge contributions and enable community-based governance (Hasan & Pfaff, 2007;Majchrzak, 2009), and reduce control, flatten hierarchies, and leverage contributions from broader communities (Bibbo et al, 2010). Majchrzak et al (2013) recently demonstrated other effects in relation to the mapping of organizational knowledge.…”

Section: Organizational Use Of Wikismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This allows many people to co-write and co-edit wiki content (Hasan & Pfaff, 2007) and also engage in knowledge shaping practices. Shaping is a distinctive affordance of wikis and describes the iterative, cumulative and organic nature of knowledge contributions, supporting the integration, organization and rewriting of content (Majchrzak et al, 2013;Yates et al, 2010).…”

Section: Organizational Use Of Wikismentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…For example, while we acknowledge the relevance of individual level analyses for investigating the role of IS in NPD activities, we concentrated our analysis at the firm and network level. We did not investigate effects that appeared in teams or changes in individual-level behaviors (Majchrzak, Wagner, & Yates, 2013). Research in this direction might shed further light on the performance of inter-organizational NPD teams.…”

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Using Information Systems in Innovation Networks: Uncovering Network Resources

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Abstract:In order to innovate, firms progressively combine complementary abilities through forming networks. Such innovation networks represent temporary assemblages of partners that, in collaboration, pursue new product developments. Existing theories suggest that successful participation in such networks depends on firms' having certain firm-level dynamic capabilities (i.e., skill in sensing the network and its environment, learning about the network, and coordinating and integrating individual resources across the network). In this paper, we argue that firms also have to develop particular networking capabilities (i.e., they have to understand who they are partnering with, what each partner can contribute, and how exactly each partner can cooperate with others across the network). We show that inter-organizational information systems (IS) are vital for facilitating the development of these networking capabilities. IS are also vital in developing unique constellations of resources (i.e., physical, human, and organizational resources) that we term IS-embedded network resources. These resources are manifested in the IS and are unique to the innovation network because they go beyond resources at the firm level. Using three innovation networks as case studies, we provide empiric evidence on how IS support networking capabilities to arrive at unique resource constellations embedded in IS and how the set of IS-embedded network resources is a determining factor for competitive advantage in innovation networks.

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“…These three versions permit participants to access and manage their test task and questionnaire online. Demonstrators are developed based on the MediaWiki platform (Decker et al, 2007;Majchrzak et al, 2013). MediaWiki was selected because it provides a flexible and open source platform for collaboration to create application content.…”

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confidence: 99%