Learning Dynamics across Boundaries of IS Context: A Structural perspective to Support Knowledge Management

Luciana Castro Gonçalves ()
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Luciana Castro Gonçalves: IRG - Institut de Recherche en Gestion - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12, Université Gustave Eiffel, ESIEE Paris

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Abstract: This paper seeks to analyze the extent to which organizations can learn in an Information System (IS) context by focusing on the relationship between projects and communities of practice. Adopting a theoretical framework combining the social learning literature (Lave, 1991; Wenger; 1998, Orlikowski, 2002) and a structural approach (Giddens, 1984), we used an ethnographic study to examine two contrasting learning dynamics in the IS Department of a multinational car manufacturer. Our findings highlight embeddedness and facilitating and inhibiting factors in learning process. Our discussion suggests an integrated knowledge management perspective (Pawlowski, Robey, 2004; Levine, Xin, 2007, Srikantaiahet al., 2010).

Date: 2012
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Published in Management international = International management = Gestión internacional, 2012, 16, pp.41-55. ⟨10.7202/1012392ar⟩

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DOI: 10.7202/1012392ar

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