Beyond Ubiquity: Co-creating Corporate Knowledge with a Wiki

Author

Hasan, Helen ; Meloche, Joseph A. ; Pfaff, Charmaine C. ; Willis, David

fYear

2007

fDate

4-9 Nov. 2007

Firstpage

35

Lastpage

40

Abstract

Despite their reputation as an evolving shared knowledge repository, Wikis are often treated with suspicion in organizations for management, social and legal reasons. Following studies of unsuccessful Wiki projects, a field study was undertaken of a corporate Wiki that has been developed to capture, and make available, organizational knowledge for a large manufacturing company as an initiative of their knowledge management program. A Q methodology research approach was selected to uncover employees´ subjective attitudes to the Wiki so that the firm could more fully exploit the potential of the Wiki as a ubiquitous tool for tacit knowledge management.

Keywords

knowledge management; ubiquitous computing; Wiki projects; corporate Wiki; corporate knowledge; evolving shared knowledge repository; knowledge management program; large manufacturing company; organizational knowledge; tacit knowledge management; ubiquitous tool; Collaborative work; Conference management; Environmental management; Knowledge management; Law; Legal factors; Manufacturing; Mobile computing; Technology management; Ubiquitous computing; Knowledge Management; Q Methodology; Ubiquitous computing; Ubiquitous knowledge; Wiki;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies, 2007. UBICOMM '07. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Papeete

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-2993-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/UBICOMM.2007.36

Filename

4402804