Affordances of Social Media in Knowledge Sharing in Intra-Organizational Information Technology Projects

Marcirio Silveira Chaves (), Eusébio Scornavacca () and Danielle Fowler ()
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Marcirio Silveira Chaves: Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
Eusébio Scornavacca: University of Baltimore
Danielle Fowler: University of Baltimore

A chapter in Digital Technology and Organizational Change, 2018, pp 35-47 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This research-in-progress aims to address the complex phenomenon of knowledge sharing within the context of social media. The objective of this paper is to examine how the affordances of social media impact knowledge sharing dynamics in intra-organizational Information Technology (IT) projects. This paper adopts Design Science Research (DSR) as research paradigm and the Technical Action Research (TAR) as validation method. One social media artifact will be designed and investigated within the context of an IT project. The expected contributions of this work will be twofold: (1) The results of this research should add to the literature on empirically tested theory of social media affordances on knowledge sharing dynamics in IT projects; (2) The instantiation of the TAR study will characterize a contribution of the type ‘situated implementation of artifact’. This research should have implications for both the Project Management and Knowledge Management communities. Practitioners should be directly benefited by this work with an in-depth understanding of social media affordances on knowledge sharing dynamics.

Keywords: Knowledge management; Project management; Affordance lens; Social media; Design science research (DSR); Technical action research (TAR) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62051-0_4

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