SSS Special Topic-Formation of an Online Community of Practice-An Inductive Study Unearthing Key Elements

1 Call for Papers [Special Topic] Formationof an Online Community of Practice: An Inductive Study Unearthing Key Elements The special topic calls for papers on Formation of an Online Community of Practice: An Inductive Study Unearthing Key Elements and such... More

1 Call for Papers [Special Topic] Formationof an Online Community of Practice: An Inductive Study Unearthing Key Elements The special topic calls for papers on Formation of an Online Community of Practice: An Inductive Study Unearthing Key Elements and such papers will appear in the journal Studies in Sociology of Science as a special column. Affiliated research area: Online Community, Well Relationship between Employee and Employer, Virtual Reaction Description Informal conversations occur all day long among employees. These conversations allow employees to share experience such as innovative ideas for performing a task. Internalizing those experiences enables sharing of tacit knowledge. Tacit knowledge is valuable to business because it embodies expertise. Shared with others as storytelling or "war" stories, tacit knowledge is difficult to catalog and store. A model for connecting and sharing tacit knowledge is a community of practice. Information systems can be used to create Less