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- Comunidades de prática: factores críticos de sucesso para a inovação e a partilha de conhecimentoPublication . Correia, Ana Maria Ramalho; Paulos, Alice; Mesquita, AnabelaAs comunidades de prática constituem um espaço privilegiado de interacção entre os seus membros, promovendo a aprendizagem e a partilha de conhecimento. Sendo esta última uma condição crítica de sucesso para a promoção da inovação, revela-se, pois, crucial, compreender os factores organizacionais que poderão condicionar esta partilha, inibindo-a ou potenciando-a. Assim, nesta comunicação começa-se por evidenciar a evolução do conceito de comunidade de prática (CdP), o seu modo de funcionamento e as suas características, dando-se algum enfoque às comunidades mediadas através de dispositivos electrónicos – as e-CdP ou comunidades digitais. Segue-se a descrição de alguns dos factores que podem condicionar a partilha de conhecimento. Apresentam-se, também, os benefícios e os inconvenientes das CdP para as organizações, bem como algumas recomendações para que estas possam usufruir do potencial relacionado com aquelas comunidades no sentido de promoverem o respectivo sucesso e a inovação.
- Innovation through virtual communities of practice: motivation and constraints in the knowledge-creation processPublication . Correia, Ana Maria Ramalho; Mesquita, Anabela; Paulos, AliceCommunities of Practice are places which provide a sound basis for organizational learning, enabling knowledge creation and acquisition thus improving organizational performance, leveraging innovation and consequently increasing competitively. Virtual Communities of Practice (VCoP‟s) can perform a central role in promoting communication and collaboration between members who are dispersed in both time and space. The ongoing case study, described here, aims to identify both the motivations and the constraints that members of an organization experience when taking part in the knowledge creating processes of the VCoP‟s to which they belong. Based on a literature review, we have identified several factors that influence such processes; they will be used to analyse the results of interviews carried out with the leaders of VCoP‟s in four multinationals. As future work, a questionnaire will be developed and administered to the other members of these VCoP‟s
- Virtual communities of practice: examining the motivations and constraints in their knowledge creation and knowledge transfer preocessesPublication . Correia, Ana Maria Ramalho; Paulos, Alice; Mesquita, Anabela
- Virtual communities of practice: investigating motivations and constraints in the processes of knowledge creation and transferPublication . Correia, Ana Maria Ramalho; Paulos, Alice; Mesquita, AnabelaWith accelerated market volatility, faster response times and increased globalization, business environments are going through a major transformation and firms have intensified their search for strategies which can give them competitive advantage. This requires that companies continuously innovate, to think of new ideas that can be transformed or implemented as products, processes or services, generating value for the firm. Innovative solutions and processes are usually developed by a group of people, working together. A grouping of people that share and create new knowledge can be considered as a Community of Practice (CoP). CoP’s are places which provide a sound basis for organizational learning and encourage knowledge creation and acquisition. Virtual Communities of Practice (VCoP's) can perform a central role in promoting communication and collaboration between members who are dispersed in both time and space. Nevertheless, it is known that not all CoP's and VCoP's share the same levels of performance or produce the same results. This means that there are factors that enable or constrain the process of knowledge creation. With this in mind, we developed a case study in order to identify both the motivations and the constraints that members of an organization experience when taking part in the knowledge creating processes of VCoP's. Results show that organizational culture and professional and personal development play an important role in these processes. No interviewee referred to direct financial rewards as a motivation factor for participation in VCoPs. Most identified the difficulty in aligning objectives established by the management with justification for the time spent in the VCoP. The interviewees also said that technology is not a constraint.