VOSS: Creating Global, Multi-lateral, Knowledge-Sharing Communities of Practice

VOSS：创建全球、多边、知识共享的实践社区

• 批准号: 1122206
• 负责人: Amy Javernick-Will
• 金额: $ 39.98万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1122206&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: VOSS; Creating; Global; Multi; lateral

Social knowledge sharing networks are central to organizational success, but with the growth in distributed global organizations, many firms are struggling with the challenge of creating and maintaining relationships that cross geographic, disciplinary, national, and cultural boundaries. This study investigates communities of practice within multinational engineering and construction organizations to build a theory of inclusive, global, knowledge sharing networks. Through social network analysis and qualitative interviews, the research team will theorize knowledge connection formation drivers and knowledge flow patterns. Existing techniques allow us to map networks of relationships, this project will go much further by (1) identifying and measuring the influence of geographic location, discipline, business practice, and generation on knowledge sharing connections; (2) determining the central sources of knowledge and directional flow of knowledge within the networks; (3) analyzing and explaining the conditions facilitating and impeding intra-organizational boundary-spanning knowledge sharing connection creation; and (4) determining why knowledge flows in a particular direction. As the movement toward distributed international organizations grows, the networks of social relationships that encourage the transfer of knowledge within a firm will weaken and knowledge sharing will become increasingly difficult. A better understanding of the drivers underlying the formation of knowledge-sharing connections and their ongoing maintenance can improve our effectiveness in addressing major societal and organizational challenges. This research will advance social science theory of knowledge sharing in global, interdisciplinary, technology-based communities of practice and provide recommendations for creating and maintaining multi-lateral knowledge sharing connections to enhance interdisciplinary communities of practice in multinational engineering and construction firms.

社会知识共享网络是组织成功的核心，但随着分布式全球组织的增长，许多公司都在努力应对建立和维持跨越地理、学科、国家和文化界限的关系的挑战。 本研究调查了跨国工程和建筑组织内的实践社区，以建立包容性、全球性、知识共享网络的理论。 通过社交网络分析和定性访谈，研究团队将对知识连接形成驱动因素和知识流动模式进行理论化。 现有技术使我们能够绘制关系网络，该项目将通过以下方式走得更远：（1）识别和衡量地理位置、学科、商业实践和生成对知识共享连接的影响； (2) 确定网络内知识的中心来源和知识流动的方向； （3）分析和解释促进和阻碍组织内跨边界知识共享连接创建的条件； (4) 确定知识为何朝特定方向流动。随着分布式国际组织运动的发展，鼓励公司内部知识转移的社会关系网络将减弱，知识共享将变得越来越困难。更好地了解知识共享联系形成的驱动因素及其持续维护可以提高我们应对重大社会和组织挑战的效率。这项研究将在全球、跨学科、基于技术的实践社区中推进知识共享的社会科学理论，并为创建和维护多边知识共享联系提供建议，以增强跨国工程和建筑公司的跨学科实践社区。