Inter-organizational networks for knowledge sharing and trading

Authors:
Gregoris Mentzas;Dimitris Apostolou;Kostas Kafentzis;Panos Georgolios
Affiliations:
National Technical University of Athens, Zografou, Greece 15780;University of Piraeus, Greece;National Technical University of Athens, Greece;National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Venue:
Information Technology and Management
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Although companies are increasingly developing complex networks of connections with their partners and customers and shifting their focus towards expanding the knowledge management concept externally, research addressing the management of knowledge across organizational borders is rather sparse. Our aim in the present paper is to develop a typology of cross-organizational networks of information and knowledge flows. In order to arrive at such a typology we examine two issues. The first concerns the locus of control on the processes that enable knowledge flow. The second refers to the tradability of the streams of knowledge that flow among organizational entities. We examine four types of knowledge networks: "knowledge communities", "knowledge chains", "knowledge supplies" and "knowledge markets". For each type of knowledge network, we examine its distinct characteristics, study related examples, consider the associated research challenges and analyze an indicative case.