The aim of the paper is to discuss the rising potential of social software to increase the
knowledge management capabilities of virtual product development teams. It presents six …

During the production of software, individuals acquire tacit knowledge that can be useful to
improve business processes. Even though people are geographically dispersed, social …

The UK Government considers its Aerospace Industry a remarkable success story, enjoying
a global market share of 17% in 2015. The capture, management and sharing of employee …

Purpose–The Internet has evolved, prompted in part by new Web 2.0 technologies, to
become a more widespread platform for interaction, communication, and activism. Virtual …

The evolution of static intranets to dynamic web 2.0 based information systems is one way to
provide space for the collaborative production of knowledge within an enterprise. Despite …

One of the core challenges in the IT world is to harness the possibilities of reusing
knowledge, expertise and lessons learned from previous software projects. In this paper, we …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide both practice‐oriented researchers and
practitioners with detailed insights into the social software goals and implementation …

The paper explores the application of Web 2.0 technologies to support product development
efforts in a global, virtual and cross-functional setting. It analyses the dichotomy between the …

Abstract Development teams involved in product development are often geographically and
temporally distributed, and there is a high level of outsourcing in product development …

Open source software (OSS) projects represent a new paradigm of software creation and
development based on hundreds or even thousands of developers and users organised in …