The term online professional community (OPC) is employed here to identify groups of professionals sharing information and knowledge for business purposes by means of Internet-based technologies. This chapter analyses: a) the economic mechanisms underpinning the social processes of knowledge transfers in an OPC, and b) the relations of such economic mechanisms with the technological infrastructure used to perform those processes.

Economic issues of online professional communities

BOLISANI, ETTORE;SCARSO, ENRICO;
2006

Abstract

The term online professional community (OPC) is employed here to identify groups of professionals sharing information and knowledge for business purposes by means of Internet-based technologies. This chapter analyses: a) the economic mechanisms underpinning the social processes of knowledge transfers in an OPC, and b) the relations of such economic mechanisms with the technological infrastructure used to perform those processes.
2006
Encyclopedia of Communities of Practices in Information and Knowledge Management
9781591405566
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