Toward Virtual Community Knowledge Evolution

Bieber, Michael; Engelbart, Douglas C.; Furuta, Richard; Hiltz, Starr Roxanne; Noll, John; Preece, Jennifer; Stohr, Edward A.; Turoff, Murray; Walle, Bartel Van de

doi:10.1080/07421222.2002.11045707

Cited by 95 publications

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“…The WCS large-scale infrastructure collaboratory, the central empirical focus of S&R, is often cited as a good analogy for scientific research communities (Bieber et al 2002). This and other papers (e.g., Bishop et al 2000) use S&R to legitimize their own research into digital libraries as an information infrastructure.…”

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Making Contributions From Interpretive Case Studies: Examining Processes of Construction and Use

Barrett¹,

Walsham²

2004

Information Systems Research

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In this paper, we examine how contributions are established in interpretive case studies. By focusing on the introductory sections of articles, previous research in the organizational literature has recently shed light on how theorists construct opportunities for making contributions. Our theoretical approach is broader in scope, examining both the construction and use of contributions in all sections of an article. We use this approach to explore how a well-ited IS interpretive case study makes contributions. With respect to constructing contributions, our findings confirm previous strategies suggested by earlier research, and uncover the use of plural strategies. Our analysis of the use of contributions is more unexpected. For example, key theoretical and conceptual contributions that were central to the case study were rarely drawn on and incorporated by later texts. Rather, multiple audiences took up the softer, and simpler, conceptual contributions. Furthermore, our findings categorize a number of different types of referencing used by later texts in incorporating and using contributions, namely mistaken referencing, ambiguous referencing, incorporating into a new term, and related work referencing. We conclude by providing some suggestions as to how IS researchers can make better contributions from interpretive case studies

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Making Contributions From Interpretive Case Studies: Examining Processes of Construction and Use

Barrett¹,

Walsham²

2004

Information Systems Research

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“…In this vertex of the 'social' and the 'technical', a distinct form of community is emerging: intraorganizational innovation community. By juxtaposing differences and similarities of research done, ranging from communities of practice (Brown and Duguid 1991;Wenger 1998;Amin and Roberts 2008) to virtual communities (Bieber, Engelbart, Furuta, Hiltz, Noll, Preece, Stohr, Turoff, and van de Walle 2002;Ardichvili, Page, and Wentling 2003), intra-organizational innovation communities are defined by the following characteristics: (i) Existence of a shared purpose to search, select and develop innovations in line with an organization's strategic objectives.…”

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Knowledge Exchange in Intra-Organizational Innovation Communities: The Role of Cognitive and Affective States

Bansemir

Neyer

Möslein

2012

Bus Res

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Many aspects in the area of designing platforms for intra-organizational innovation communities are not well understood. In this article, we examine the impact of technologically induced psychological factors on knowledge exchange in such communities. Using two experimental pretest-posttest experiments, we find that the implementation of (i) technologically induced self-efficacy (expressed by a ‘hurray’ message) and (ii) technologically induced positive affect (expressed by playing some 30 seconds of rock-’n’-roll music) in the design of the platform results in an influential increase of knowledge exchange. Importantly, the studies suggest that the integration of technologically induced self-efficacy leads to a higher extent of knowledge exchange than technologically induced positive affect. The implications of these results for future research and practice as well as for the design of a platform for such communities are discussed.

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“…Based on the classifications and definitions, we present the implementation of our P2P and IM collaboration support environment and demonstrate how to utilize such environment to find relevant knowledge and right collaborators. Bieber et al (2002) pointed out that a virtual community's knowledge has both explicit and tacit components. Explicit knowledge is mostly in the forms of documents and tangible artifacts that can be expressed in words, languages, diagrams, and formulas (Polanyi, 1997).…”

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A social network-based system for supporting interactive collaboration in knowledge sharing over peer-to-peer network

Yang

Chen

2008

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

135

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Toward Virtual Community Knowledge Evolution

Cited by 95 publications

References 76 publications

Making Contributions From Interpretive Case Studies: Examining Processes of Construction and Use

Making Contributions From Interpretive Case Studies: Examining Processes of Construction and Use

Knowledge Exchange in Intra-Organizational Innovation Communities: The Role of Cognitive and Affective States

A social network-based system for supporting interactive collaboration in knowledge sharing over peer-to-peer network

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