Leadership in online knowledge networks: Challenges and coping strategies in an network of practice
Year: 2008
Type: report
Abstract: In this paper we explore the challenges and coping strategies for leading online intraorganizational Networks of Practice (NOPs).The research indicates that coordinating distributed knowledge in NOPs poses a leadership challenge that is not yet addressed in the literature on knowledge management in general and is unique when comparing intraorganizational NOPs to research on leadership in other types of online knowledge networks.This challenge entails creating and maintaining a balance between the interests of the formal organization and the interests of the informal network, and shows that coordinating informal knowledge sharing in a formal context involves a management dilemma thereby contributing to theory on coordinating distributed knowledge.
Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems and Management
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2109724609