Information Technology and Organizational Learning: An Investigation of Exploration and Exploitation Processes

By Gerald C. Kane, Maryam Alavi. Organ. Sci., 2007

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Subfields: Communication, Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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Organizational Learning: From Experience to Knowledge (2011, unknown): “Kane and Alavi (2007) used a simulation to examine the effect of knowledge management tools, such as electronic communities of practice or knowledge repositories, on organizational learning.”
Which Problems to Solve? Online Knowledge Sharing and Attention Allocation in Organizations (2014, background): “It is also of practical importance since many large, dispersed organizations use online discussion forums to facilitate knowledge sharing among their employees (e.g., Davenport & Prusak, 2000; Kane & Alavi, 2007).”
What Do We Mean by Blended Learning? (2019, background): “More specific terms and conceptualizations is a foundation for sub-communities that deeply explore foundational ideas and contribute to a cumulative tradition (Kane and Alavi 2007; Kuhn 1962).”
What's Different about Social Media Networks? A Framework and Research Agenda (2014, result): “Similar trade-offs are widely recognized in previous studies of organizational knowledge sharing (Durcikova et al. 2011; Kane and Alavi 2007; Lazer and Friedman 2007).”
When Does Technology Use Enable Network Change in Organizations? A Comparative Study of Feature Use and Shared Affordances (2013, background): “These patterns of use suggest that members of both groups first adopted an explorative strategy when using the technology and, later, members of one group moved to an exploitative strategy (Burton-Jones and Straub 2006; Kane and Alavi 2007).”
Membership Turnover and Collaboration Success in Online Communities: Explaining Rises (2011, background): “If too little turnover happens though, the knowledge created by the community can become stale and rigid (Garcia et al. 2003; Kane and Alavi 2007).”
Digital product innovation within four classes of innovation networks (2016, unknown): “In the future, digital tools and capabilities need to be conceptualized ontologically both as nodes and as connections in extended types of network analyses (Kane & Alavi, 2007).”
What drives continued knowledge sharing? An investigation of knowledge-contribution and -seeking beliefs (2009, background): “Likewise, Kane and Alavi [36] argued that using the electronic knowledge repositories seldom contributes to the seeker's knowledge growth or long-term learning.”
Exploration and exploitation: internal variety and environmental dynamism (2009, background): “This negative second-order effect lowers the possibility of further improvement in individual knowledge (March, 1991). Therefore, vertical socialization into organizational code appears to improve current organizational knowledge at the cost of reduced internal variety. Second, following Miller et a”
Subsidiary Roles and Reverse Knowledge Transfer: An Investigation of the Effects of Coordination Mechanisms (2011, methodology): “The variable cultural distance is measured using Kogut and Singh’s (1988) cultural distance index (others have also adopted this measure.”
The Contradictory Influence of Social Media Affordances on Online Communal Knowledge Sharing (2013, unknown): “Thus, individuals may only attach to those they know or only connect with popular managers, professionals, or content sources, limiting their learning and knowledge exposure (Kane and Alavi, 2007).”
Understanding the Link Between Information Technology Capability and Organizational Agility: An Empirical Examination (2011, background): “Robust knowledge storage and retrieval systems such as knowledge repositories and portals were found to reduce knowledge heterogeneity and promote exploitation while crowding out exploration ( Kane and Alavi 2007 ) .”