The Challenges of Knowledge Sharing in Practice
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The Challenges of Knowledge Sharing in Practice

A Social Approach

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Challenges of Knowledge Sharing in Practice

A Social Approach

About this book

Addresses the key skills that are required in organisations in the information intensive society. The book examines the power of information behaviour on the construction of different kinds of shared knowledge and social identity in a group. An introduction to the different dimensions of social capital that is structural and cognitive, and looks at the relational aspects of information behaviour in organisations. Experiences are analysed in two different case studies - in the financial and biotechnology industries - in order to gain additional insights in how the internal organisation environment should be designed to support the development of the organisation's intellectual capital.- Introduces social capital dimensions to the knowledge management framework- Provides empirical work on the new combination of social capital and organizational information behaviour. Two different information sharing practices are presented: a claims handling unit (routine based work) and a biotechnology firm (expert work)- Develops social capital measures into qualitative information research

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Information

Publisher
Chandos Publishing
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781843342854
eBook ISBN
9781780632018
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Information Management
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Challenges of Knowledge Sharing in Practice: A social approach
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. List of figures and tables
  8. About the author
  9. Part 1 Theories of information sharing
  10. Part 2 Two practices in information sharing
  11. Part 3 Insights into information, knowledge sharing and social capital
  12. Appendix 1 Interview protocol: dimensions of social capital and knowledge sharing
  13. Appendix 2 Questionnaire: group identity aspects
  14. References
  15. Index