Start Date
10-12-2017 12:00 AM
Description
Virtual Communities of practice (VCoP) are seen as an innovative way to manage knowledge, sustain innovation and foster distributed collaborative working. There is therefore an increased interest to take this concept to address today’s global collaboration challenges and it is now believed that organizations can play a critical role in nurturing such communities. Despite this, limited research carried out to date has investigated how VCoP can be cultivated to support distributed collaborative work, particularly within widely distributed and global software development contexts. This paper contributes to this area of research, by adopting the creolization framework, drawing upon the case of the Worldwide Large Hadron Collider computing Grid (WLCG) from the highly distributed and collaborative particle physics community. The paper seeks to offer lessons and recommendations for engendering VCoP.
Recommended Citation
Kyriakidou-Zacharoudiou, Avgousta and Zheng, Yingqin, "Engendering Virtual Communities of Practice: A Study of a Globally Distributed Grid Development Project" (2017). ICIS 2017 Proceedings. 1.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/DigitalPlatforms/Presentations/1
Engendering Virtual Communities of Practice: A Study of a Globally Distributed Grid Development Project
Virtual Communities of practice (VCoP) are seen as an innovative way to manage knowledge, sustain innovation and foster distributed collaborative working. There is therefore an increased interest to take this concept to address today’s global collaboration challenges and it is now believed that organizations can play a critical role in nurturing such communities. Despite this, limited research carried out to date has investigated how VCoP can be cultivated to support distributed collaborative work, particularly within widely distributed and global software development contexts. This paper contributes to this area of research, by adopting the creolization framework, drawing upon the case of the Worldwide Large Hadron Collider computing Grid (WLCG) from the highly distributed and collaborative particle physics community. The paper seeks to offer lessons and recommendations for engendering VCoP.