Knowledge and Organization: A Social-Practice Perspective
Organization Science
An empirical investigation of KM styles and their effect on corporate performance
Information and Management
Knowledge Management
A Multiagent Architecture for Developing Medical Information Retrieval Agents
Journal of Medical Systems
Factors affecting engineers' acceptance of asynchronous e-learning systems in high-tech companies
Information and Management
Communities of practice and organizational performance
IBM Systems Journal
Comparative Analysis of Medical Web Search Using Generalized vs. Niche Technologies
Journal of Medical Systems
Knowledge sharing in cross-boundary information system development in the public sector
Information Technology and Management
Clinical Information System Availability and Use in Urban and Rural Hospitals
Journal of Medical Systems
IT support for healthcare processes - premises, challenges, perspectives
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Toward Virtual Community Knowledge Evolution
Journal of Management Information Systems
Implication of network size and structure on organizations' knowledge transfer
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Reality is our laboratory: communities of practice in applied computer science
Behaviour & Information Technology - Computer Support for Learning Communities
Adding contextual specificity to the technology acceptance model
Computers in Human Behavior
Networkcentric healthcare and bioinformatics: Unified operations within three domains of knowledge
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Information and Management
Comparing knowledge management in health-care and technical support organizations
IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
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Communities of practice have been heralded as a powerful knowledge management tool, especially for geographically disparate workgroups. Research into knowledge management KM in healthcare organizations is a needed research focus, given that differences exist in knowledge and knowledge management processes between healthcare and other organization types. The research presented in this paper examines the effectiveness of communities of practice as a knowledge sharing tool in a large and geographically disparate healthcare organization. Findings suggest that job role affects community members' perceptions of the benefit and impact of communities of practice as well as their participation in such communities.