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

基本信息

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

项目摘要

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.

社会知识共享网络对组织成功是至关重要的，但是随着分布式全球组织的增长，许多公司在建立和维持跨越地理，纪律，国家和文化边界的关系的挑战中挣扎。这项研究调查了跨国工程和建筑组织中的实践社区，以建立包容性的全球知识共享网络理论。通过社交网络分析和定性访谈，研究团队将理论化知识联系驱动因素和知识流模式。现有的技术使我们能够映射关系网络，该项目将通过（1）识别和衡量地理位置，纪律，商业实践和生成对知识共享联系的影响；（2）确定网络内知识知识的中心来源；（3）分析和解释促进和阻碍组织内边界内部跨界知识共享连接创建的条件；（4）确定知识为什么朝特定方向流动。随着朝着分布式国际组织发展的发展，鼓励企业中知识转移的社会关系网络将削弱，知识共享将变得越来越困难。更好地了解知识共享联系及其持续维护的驱动因素可以提高我们在应对重大社会和组织挑战方面的有效性。这项研究将推进社会科学理论在全球，跨学科的基于技术的实践社区中的知识共享理论，并提供了创建和维持多边知识共享联系的建议，以增强跨国工程和建筑公司的实践跨学科社区。