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What is Virtual Cross-Organization Community of Practice

Chapter 15
Handbook of Research on Communities of Practice for Organizational Management and Networking: Methodologies for Competitive Advantage
Boundary-spanning and intra-organizational virtual alliances operating as moderated virtual communities of practice whose members represent organizations of different sectors of an industry
Published in Chapter:
Cross-Organization Virtual CoP: A Field Study in an Information-Based Industry
Demosthenes Akoumianakis (Technological Education Institution of Crete, Greece)
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-802-4.ch015
Abstract
The chapter motivates and presents an approach for assembling innovative information-based products and services by virtual cross-organization communities of practice. Using a case study on assembling vacation packages, we describe the cross-organizational virtual partnership, the mechanics allowing it to operate as a virtual community of practice and how collective intelligence of the members is appropriated to ensemble innovative information-based products for tourists. The results provide useful insights into innovating through virtual networking as well as the ICT tools that may be used to foster value-creating networks of practice in boundary spanning domains.
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