For managing their intellectual capital and also to utilize the ‘knowledge’ more efficiently, a number of organizations have introduced Knowledge Management (KM) systems. Though explicit knowledge capture and transfer was quite possible, tacit knowledge was still a challenge for organization experts to capture and transfer. The concept of Communities of Practice (CoP) in KM is increasingly becoming popular to enhance social interactions. CoP refers to informal groups of people bound together by a common purpose. In these communities, members are provided opportunity to share their best practices, which are commonly implicit in nature. However, knowledge sharing in CoP has not been fully researched yet. The purpose of this paper is to review the relationship between KM and CoP and examine how it can influence the knowledge sharing process in organizations. This study proposes a critical reading of the studies available on the topic, with the purpose to identify the main elements and methods influencing the transfer of knowledge. It reviews the emerging concept of ‘CoP’ as a knowledge transfer method for sharing knowledge which is commonly implicit in nature. This paper presents that the concept of CoP can foster joint learning that involves tacit and codified knowledge. Members of a CoP share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly. The existence of common knowledge and a shared system of values makes sharing tacit knowledge easier in CoP, as group members have insights into the implicit assumptions and values embedded in each other’s knowledge. An empirical work in managing CoP and in identifying the knowledge-sharing methods represents an interesting challenge for further research in the area.

Communities of Practice: An Influencing Factor for Effective Knowledge Transfer in Organizations

The study on motivation internal knowledge collaboration(KC) is of great importance to the better management and motivating team members to participate in the KC in a more positive way. Firstly, th...

Motivations of R&D team participating in knowledge collaboration : A game analysis and empirical study

Knowledge Heterogeneity is the source of Knowledge Collaboration in Enterprise while the Virtual Practice Community constructed with Web 2.0 technology is a very important way to gain heterogeneous knowledge. Active Cross-border Innovation makes the virtual practice community to be heterogeneous knowledge preference nowadays. However, the appropriate degree of knowledge heterogeneity that can excite the community to be synergy equilibrium is difficult to seek. This paper studies on the signaling game analysis of knowledge heterogeneity in Virtual Practice Community based on two-period reputation model. We mainly analyze the lower bound of optimal interval of knowledge heterogeneity to reveal the management meaning of this optimal interval.

Game analysis on the lower bound of optimal interval of knowledge heterogeneity in virtual practice community

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Game analysis on the lower bound of optimal interval of knowledge heterogeneity in virtual practice community