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Nomadic Knowledge Sharing Practices and Challenges: Findings from a Long-term Case Study

AuthorSaeed, Saqib; Pipek, Volkmar; Rohde, Markus; Reuter, Christian; Pinatti de Carvalho, Aparecido Fabiano; Wulf, Volker
Date2019
TypeJournal Article
AbstractIn this paper, we explore a specialized type of knowledge, "nomadic knowledge" to understand its implications in knowledge sharing process. Nomadic knowledge is enacted in a discontinuous pattern with a changing set of actors and further flows on a definedtrajectory. This knowledge is quite important but is required sporadically, so it has a varying level of importance for stakeholders at different instances of time. The limited interest of knowledge holders after the creation of knowledge makes the knowledge sharing processcomplex. Furthermore, new sets of actors overloaded with tasks often ignore the knowledge sharing aspect due to the urgency of tasks at hand. Using a long-term field study we describe a particular practice that is not well supported technologically. The objective of this paper is to outline the concept of nomadic knowledge and associated implications, so that respective practices can be supported by the knowledge management community with appropriate technology.
ISSN2169-3536
InIEEE Access, p.63564-63577
PublisherIEEE
Urlhttps://tubiblio.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/116021