Chris Kimble

Chris Kimble is a lecturer in Information Systems in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York. Before moving to York, he was lecturer at the University of Newcastle's Business School, and a researcher for the Business School and Department of Computer Science at the University of Northumbria. His broad area of research is Knowledge Management. His areas of particular interest are Communities of Practice and the problems associated with supporting distributed working in a cross-cultural or trans-national context. He is the leader of Management and Information Systems Research group at York and a co-founder of the Northern Interest Group on Information Systems and Organizations (NISG). He has supervised a number of PhD students and has published over 40 articles in journals, conferences, reports and books. He is the academic contact for Knowledge Management for the WUN (Worldwide Universities Network) at the University of York and is a member of the editorial board of the journal Information Research.

Publications

Effective Virtual Working through Communities of Practice
Effective Virtual Working through Communities of Practice
Chris Kimble, Feng Li. © 2010. 8 pages.
Globalization is an issue currently affecting many organizations and is one that has profound consequences for the nature of work (Karimi & Konsynski, 1991; Ives & Jarvenpaa...
Virtual Communities of Practice
Virtual Communities of Practice
Chris Kimble, Paul Hildreth. © 2009. 5 pages.
When knowledge management (KM) began to emerge in the 1990s it was seen as an innovative solution to the problems of managing knowledge in a competitive and increasingly...
An Ontology-Based Competence Management Model to Support Collaborative Working and Organisational Learning
An Ontology-Based Competence Management Model to Support Collaborative Working and Organisational Learning
José Braga de Vasconcelos, Chris Kimble. © 2008. 16 pages.
This chapter describes an ontology based competence management model that can be used to support distributed collaborative working and facilitate organisational leaning. The...
An Ontology-Based Competence Management Model to Support Collaborative Working and Organisational Learning
An Ontology-Based Competence Management Model to Support Collaborative Working and Organisational Learning
José Braga de Vasconcelos, Chris Kimble. © 2007. 13 pages.
This chapter describes an ontology based competence management model that can be used to support distributed collaborative working and facilitate organisational leaning. The...
Limits of Communities of Practice
Limits of Communities of Practice
Chris Kimble, Paul Hildreth. © 2006. 8 pages.
When knowledge management (KM) began to emerge in the late 1980s, it was seen as an innovative solution to the problems of managing knowledge in a competitive and increasingly...
Effective Virtual Working though Communities of Practice
Effective Virtual Working though Communities of Practice
Chris Kimble, Feng Li. © 2006. 5 pages.
Globalization is an issue currently affecting many organizations and is one that has profound consequences for the nature of work (Karimi & Konsynski, 1991; Ives & Jarvenpaa...
Virtual Communities of Practice
Virtual Communities of Practice
Chris Kimble, Paul Hildreth. © 2005. 5 pages.
When knowledge management (KM) began to emerge in the 1990s it was seen as an innovative solution to the problems of managing knowledge in a competitive and increasingly...
Knowledge Networks: Innovation Through Communities of Practice
Knowledge Networks: Innovation Through Communities of Practice
Paul Hildreth, Chris Kimble. © 2004. 354 pages.
Knowledge Networks: Innovations Through Communities of Practice draws on the experience of people who have worked with CoPs in the real world and presents their combined wisdom...
Communities of Practice: Going Virtual
Communities of Practice: Going Virtual
Chris Kimble, Paul Hildreth, Peter Wright. © 2001. 15 pages.
With the current trends towards downsizing, outsourcing and globalisation, modern organisations are reducing the numbers of people they employ. In addition, organisations now...