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http://dx.doi.org/10.9723/jksiis.2014.19.6.097

A Framework for Knowledge Propagation Analysis using Social Network  

Hwang, Hyun-Seok (한림대학교 경영학부, 한림경영연구소)
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Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems / v.19, no.6, 2014 , pp. 97-106 More about this Journal
Abstract
A company regards knowledge shared and used within a corporate organization as intellectual capital linked to corporate competences. A great deal of research has been conducted in the past to identify knowledge sharing among knowledge workers. Some papers focus on information technology for automated, efficient, and explicit knowledge sharing. Other papers emphasize the role of social networks to identify the flow of tacit knowledge. Though the role of CoP(Community of Practice) is emphasized to facilitate knowledge management among workers, it is not an easy task to identify the potential members of CoP without voluntary participation of the workers. In this study we adopt a social network approach to analyze knowledge propagation and to identify the potential members of CoP. We suggest a framework for classifying knowledge workers and the result of feasibility study.
Keywords
Knowledge propagation analysis; Knowledge network; Social network; Knowledge sharing;
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