MODELLING THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT OF VIRTUAL KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS: SOME EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

Giuseppina Passiante () and Pierpaolo Andriani ()
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Giuseppina Passiante: Department of Innovation Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Lecce, via per Monteroni 73100 (Lecce), Italy
Pierpaolo Andriani: Durham University Business School, Mill Hill Lane, Durham City, DH1 3LB, United Kingdom

International Journal of Innovation Management (ijim), 2000, vol. 04, issue 01, 1-31

Abstract: This paper will report the results of empirical, web-based research on the knowledge processes that take place in a virtual environment which has been created by the convergence between the telecommunications and information technologies. The analysis of some virtual knowledge networks (VKNs) is presented; the 34 analyses focus on the network properties of both nodes and links. These properties give information on a new general model of VKNs that describes the multilevel structure of virtual networks. An interpretation of VKNs is proposed, which makes use of the complexity theory.

Keywords: virtual communities; learning; complex systems; knowledge; networks; Extranets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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