The possibility of water-cooler chat? developing communities of practice for knowledge sharing within global virtual teams

• Main Author: Zakaria, Norhayati
• Other Authors: Raisinghani, Mahesh S.
• Format: Book Section
• Language: English
• Published: IGI Global 2008
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/15775/1/Nor.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/15775/; http://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-875-8.ch004
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

This chapter looks at a key concept called communities of practice that helps to facilitate organizational learning through increased knowledge sharing within global virtual teams.By using Granovetter’s (1974) weak ties theory, I suggest that casual acquaintances, known as weak ties have significant...