KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT IN COMMUNITIES ANDNETWORKS OF PRACTICE: CHALLENGES, ISSUESAND PARADOXES

摘要

This research-in-progress paper investigates knowledge management activities in communities and networksrnof practice and the role and use of IT in such knowledge networks. Drawn from the network model includingrnsocial-practice perspectives (Wenger 1998; Brown and Duguid 2000; Brown and Duguid 2001), social networkrntheory (Granovetter 1973), and actor network theory (Law and Callon 1992; Latour 1996) and by reviewingrnexisting literature, we develop five research questions. A case study with a university IT department is used tornanswer the five research questions.