Knowledge Networks: Innovation through Communities of Practice

Editors, Paul Hildreth and Chris Kimble
Publisher, Idea Group Publishing
Hard cover ISBN: 159140200X Soft cover ISBN: 1591402700



Emmanuelle Vaast

Biography

Emmanuelle Vaast gained her Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France. She is an Assistant Professor in Information Systems at the School of Business, Public Administration and Information Sciences at Long Island University. Her research interests concern the construction of intra-organizational boundaries with practices of IS and the transformation of the relationships between Communities of Practice and the formal organization through the appropriation of new technologies. She has presented her work at the Academy of Management Conference and has published in Information Research.

Chapters

Chapter 18 - THE USE OF INTRANETS: THE MISSING link BETWEEN COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE AND NETWORKS OF PRACTICE?