Study On Knowledge Sharing In Enterprise Community Of Practice

Community of Practice (CoP) is an informal organization that makes it becomes the best organization form for knowledge sharing and innovation in enterprise. However, there are lots of obstacles in the process of knowledge sharing in enterprise CoP, meanwhile constructing knowledge sharing mechanism in CoP becomes a problem in enterprise knowledge management. This paper systematically investigates the knowledge sharing in enterprise CoP through literature research, comprehensive analysis and modeling, analyses knowledge sharing process and obstacles of enterprise CoP, establishes a reasonable and perfect theoretical system of knowledge sharing mechanism in enterprise CoP.The main body of the paper divided into four parts.In the first part, some concepts related to knowledge sharing in enterprise CoP are discussed, including the connotations, features and types of CoP; the knowledge sharing mechanism in enterprise CoP; summarizing the knowledge sharing and innovation functions of enterprise CoP.The second part analyses knowledge sharing process and obstacles of enterprise CoP. Firstly, constructing a process model of knowledge sharing in enterprise CoP based on SECI knowledge spiral, and analyzing the process of knowledge sharing in enterprise CoP by game theory. Then the obstacle factors of knowledge sharing in enterprise CoP are systematically analyzed from the following aspects:main body of knowledge sharing, knowledge itself, organization management, community culture, incentive mechanism and knowledge sharing technology and so on.The third part raises an overall framework of knowledge sharing mechanism in enterprise CoP aim at obstacles that exist in knowledge sharing process, then deeply discusses how to construct knowledge sharing mechanism in enterprise CoP from mainly four aspects:community organization management, community culture value, knowledge sharing incentive mechanism, and knowledge sharing supporting technology.Finally, making a summary of the whole paper and pointing out the deficiencies and some issues to be discussing later. Based on domestic and overseas existing research, the paper systematically study on knowledge sharing process, obstacle factors and guarantee mechanism, for the purpose of exploring community member’s knowledge sharing new channel that different from traditional formal organization. Meanwhile, hoping the result of this research can offer some profitable references to domestic enterprise construct CoP, and effectively using it to promote community member’s knowledge sharing.