Inter-Organizational Knowledge Creation through Informal Organizing

Convenors: Val Lindsay and Michael B. Arthur

Session One - 9:00am to 10:30am

Networks, Informal Relationships, and Knowledge Transfer.

In this session, networks and the role of informal relationships in knowledge transfer within different organizational settings are explored.

• Knowledge creation in managed learning networks: structuring informal relations or killing the goose that laid the golden egg?
  Nick Marshall and George Tsekouras, University of Brighton
• Co-authoring narratives and/of knowledge transfer in virtual collaborative networks: The InCaS experience.
  Dr Lucia Garcia Lorenzo, London School of Economics
• Sharing Information in Times of Crisis: A Case Study of Knowledge Sharing Among Physicians, Public Sector, and Society
  Donna M. Schaeffer, PhD, Marymount University
  Shaochih Chiu, Argosy University
  Kathleen Nakfoor, EdD
• When Networks Matter: Network Content And Innovation Output
  Irem Demirkan, Northeastern University, Boston
  David L. Deeds, University of Texas at Dallas

Session Two - 11:00am to 12:30pm

Social Interaction, Social Capital, and Knowledge Transfer

In this session, contributors discuss the role of social intractability in the knowledge practices and performance of organisations.

• The Social Capital of Corporate Selling Centers: The Mediating Role of Knowledge Transfer in Team Performance
  Jing Yang and Thomas G. Brashear, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  
• Multi-voiced organizing by relational knowledge practices in multi-party sustainability projects
  René Bouwen, Research Center for Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
  Art Dewulf, Wageningen University, Netherlands
• The Dark Side of Social Capital
  Ragnhild Silkoset, BI Norwegian School of Management, Oslo, Norway
• Telepresence Systems: Expanding Social Interaction in a Dispersed Virtual Workplace
  Charles F. Piazza, John F. Kennedy University

Session Three - 1:30pm to 3:00pm 

Innovation Through Inter-Organizational Knowledge Creation and Learning

Contributors to this session consider how interactions between organisations influence leaning and innovation.

• Micro-sized design firms and design outcomes within a clustered environment
  Alison Rieple, University of Westminster, London, UK
  Jonathan Gander, University of Kingston, London, UK
• Interorganizational learning process in strategic alliances : the case of capgemini and its partners
  Maâlaoui Adnan, IAE  - University of Toulon-Var-France
  Chelley Amine, EDC, Paris, France
• Considering Change From Within - The Concept of Innovation Driven Change
  Dipl.-Psych. Thorsten Roser, London School of Economics
• Collective Competencies management at the JavaCard Forum: a tool for developing and launching technological innovations
  Françoise Dupuich-Rabasse, France