Knowledge Sharing in a Business Incubator
(2012) BUSN49 20121Department of Business Administration
- Abstract
- Purpose: The purpose of the research is to investigate how entrepreneurs experience knowledge sharing in a business incubator. Furthermore, the study explores which fac- tors enable or inhibit knowledge sharing.
Design/methodology/approach: The research is based on an inductive approach with twelve semi-structured interviews serving as the main empirical data, with additional unstructured observations supporting the data. Since the focus is on entrepreneurs lived experiences, a phenomenological approach is used.
Findings: The thesis argues that entrepreneurs experience four aspects; 1) open office space, 2) management support, as well as 3) activities and the 4) community – as sup- portive for sharing knowledge in a business... (More) - Purpose: The purpose of the research is to investigate how entrepreneurs experience knowledge sharing in a business incubator. Furthermore, the study explores which fac- tors enable or inhibit knowledge sharing.
Design/methodology/approach: The research is based on an inductive approach with twelve semi-structured interviews serving as the main empirical data, with additional unstructured observations supporting the data. Since the focus is on entrepreneurs lived experiences, a phenomenological approach is used.
Findings: The thesis argues that entrepreneurs experience four aspects; 1) open office space, 2) management support, as well as 3) activities and the 4) community – as sup- portive for sharing knowledge in a business incubator. Both, the notions of collaborative communities (CC) and communities of practise (COP), respectively, show crucial as- pects that are of particular importance in enabling knowledge sharing. Hence, our find- ings show that both notions viewed from a convergent perspective could result in a mu- tually beneficial new framework, which can be named collaborative communities of practice (CCOP). The constructed framework constitutes a suitable illustration of how missing values in the concept of COP can be extended in order to promote knowledge sharing.
Originality/value: By outlining experienced enabling aspects to share knowledge and by introducing a merged framework regarding knowledge sharing, the authors offer a new foundation for theory building for researchers in this field, as well as interesting re- sults for practitioners. (Less)
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- author
- Temperli, Roland LU and Siebert, Steffen
- supervisor
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- Tony Huzzard LU
- Stephan Schaefer LU
- organization
- course
- BUSN49 20121
- year
- 2012
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Knowledge sharing, business incubator, collaborative communities, com- munties of practice, collaborative communities of practice.
- language
- English
- id
- 2798148
- date added to LUP
- 2012-06-18 12:15:22
- date last changed
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abstract = {{Purpose: The purpose of the research is to investigate how entrepreneurs experience knowledge sharing in a business incubator. Furthermore, the study explores which fac- tors enable or inhibit knowledge sharing.
Design/methodology/approach: The research is based on an inductive approach with twelve semi-structured interviews serving as the main empirical data, with additional unstructured observations supporting the data. Since the focus is on entrepreneurs lived experiences, a phenomenological approach is used.
Findings: The thesis argues that entrepreneurs experience four aspects; 1) open office space, 2) management support, as well as 3) activities and the 4) community – as sup- portive for sharing knowledge in a business incubator. Both, the notions of collaborative communities (CC) and communities of practise (COP), respectively, show crucial as- pects that are of particular importance in enabling knowledge sharing. Hence, our find- ings show that both notions viewed from a convergent perspective could result in a mu- tually beneficial new framework, which can be named collaborative communities of practice (CCOP). The constructed framework constitutes a suitable illustration of how missing values in the concept of COP can be extended in order to promote knowledge sharing.
Originality/value: By outlining experienced enabling aspects to share knowledge and by introducing a merged framework regarding knowledge sharing, the authors offer a new foundation for theory building for researchers in this field, as well as interesting re- sults for practitioners.}},
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language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Knowledge Sharing in a Business Incubator}},
year = {{2012}},
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