An Exploration of Cultural Factors Affecting Use of Communities of Practice

Abstract

On-line communities of practice are potentially powerful social learning networks that can improve organizational performance. Unfortunately, administrators of on-line communities of practice report that community members do not take full advantage of this potential. This study used Shaw and Tuggle's (2003) factors of knowledge management (KM) culture affecting organizational acceptance of a knowledge management initiative to explore this issue. It was hypothesized that respondents whose communities of practice possessed higher average community use per member would rate KM culture variables higher than respondents whose communities possessed a lower average community use. An analysis of survey data collected from Air Force Knowledge Now communities of practice identified two KM culture variables with a significant relationship between how individuals rated their community on each KM culture variable and use.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA425171

Entities

People

  • Peter L. Hinrichsen

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Applied Psychology
  • Business Administration
  • Community Of Practice
  • Computers
  • Data Analysis
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Knowledge Management
  • Management Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Statistical Analysis
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  • Organizational Psychology.
  • Space/Atmospheric Physics.