The rise of social product development
| Document type: | Journal Articles |
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| Article type: | Original article |
| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
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| Author(s): | Marco Bertoni, Andreas Larsson, Åsa Ericson, Koteshwar Chirumalla, Tobias Larsson, Ola Isaksson, Dave Randall |
| Title: | The rise of social product development |
| Journal: | International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Volume: | 11 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pagination: | 188-207 |
| Publisher: | Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
| URI/DOI: | 10.1504/IJNVO.2012.048346 |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Engineering - Dept. of Mechanical Engineering (Sektionen för ingenjörsvetenskap - avd. för maskinteknik) School of Engineering S- 371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.bth.se/ing/ |
| Authors e-mail: | tlr@bth.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | The aim of the paper is to discuss the rising potential of social software to increase the knowledge management capabilities of virtual product development teams. It presents six fundamental transitions, elaborated from the empirical findings, which justify the rise of a more bottom-up, social creation and sharing of engineering knowledge in the virtual organisation. The study suggests that traditional engineering knowledge management approaches alone are not sufficient to support development activities in the virtual organisation, and that such teams display an increasing demand for social, comparatively lightweight and remixable platforms for bottom-up, social creation and sharing of knowledge. |
| Subject: | Mechanical Engineering\General Computer Science\General Sociology\General |
| Keywords: | social product development, social software, engineering knowledge management, virtual organisations, Engineering 2.0, lightweight knowledge sharing, remixable platforms. |
