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Joanne Roberts
Researcher at University of Southampton
Publications - 75
Citations - 4073
Joanne Roberts is an academic researcher from University of Southampton. The author has contributed to research in topics: Personal knowledge management & Knowledge economy. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 75 publications receiving 3833 citations. Previous affiliations of Joanne Roberts include Bombardier Inc. & Durham University.
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Limits to Communities of Practice
TL;DR: In this article, the authors critically explore the communities of practice approach to managing knowledge and its use among management academics and practitioners in recent years, and identify the limits of the approach in the field of knowledge management.
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Knowing in action: beyond communities of practice
Ash Amin,Joanne Roberts +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for the importance of differentiating between different varieties of knowing in action, and propose a typology of four modes: craft or task-based knowing, epistemic or high creativity knowing, professional knowing, and virtual knowing.
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From know-how to show-how? questioning the role of information and communication technologies in knowledge transfer
TL;DR: This paper explores and critically reviews the ability of Information and Communication Technologies to improve the transferability of knowledge and raises issues concerning the relationship between knowledge transfer, ICTs and trust.
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Knowledge and Innovation in the New Service Economy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present contributions to address the economic dimensions of knowledge and the organization of knowledge-intensive activity through specialized services in the new service economy, and they propose a framework to support knowledge and innovation in the service economy.
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Community, economic creativity, and organization
Ash Amin,Joanne Roberts +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, leading international scholars critically examine the concept of communities of practice and its applications in different spatial, organizational, and creative settings, examine the development of the concept, the link between situated practice and different types of creative outcome, the interface between spatial and relational proximity, and the organizational demands of learning and knowing through Communities of practice.