Information sharing is considered an important approach to increasing organizational
efficiency and performance. With advances in information and communication technology …

The problem and the solution. Virtual (online) communities of practice (VCoPs; when
community members share and cocreate knowledge in online discussions and other forms …

Knowledge has become the key to success in the global knowledge economy, not only for
organizations, but also in virtual communities of practice (VCoPs). The major challenge in …

Wikis provide new opportunities for learning and for collaborative knowledge building as
well as for understanding these processes. This article presents a theoretical framework for …

This chapter provides an overview of the literature on tailored health communication
messages, an innovative area of health communication research that has broad applicability …

Sense of virtual community (SOVC) reflects the feeling that individual members have of
belonging to an online social group. Yet there is a lack of investigation focusing on its …

Objectives: Intra-organizational communication is mostly interpersonal. Synchronous
interruptive communication is recognized as aprimary source of inefficiency anderror in …

Open government data has become an important movement for government administrations
around the world. Nevertheless, government agencies tend not to open their datasets and …

This article proposes a shift in how researchers study knowledge and knowing in
organizations. Responding to a pronounced lack of methodological guidance from existing …

A common challenge in many situations of computer-supported collaborative learning is
increasing the willingness of those involved to share their knowledge with other group …