Abstract
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 fundamental transitions, elaborated from the empirical findings, which justify the rise of a more bottom-up, social creation and sharing of engineering knowledge in the virtual organisation. The study suggests that traditional engineering knowledge management approaches alone are not sufficient to support development activities in the virtual organisation, and that such teams display an increasing demand for social, comparatively lightweight and remixable platforms for bottom-up, social creation and sharing of knowledge.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 188-207 |
| Journal | International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
- Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified
Free keywords
- Innovation engineering
- innovationsteknik
- innovation
- product development
- social product development
- social software
- engineering knowledge management
- virtual organisation
- Engineering 2.0
- lightweight knowledge sharing
- remixable platforms