Document Type

Article

Publication Date

January 2018

Publication Title

CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation

Volume

2

Issue Number

1

First Page

22

Last Page

29

DOI

10.23726/cij.2018.750

Keywords

Online collaboration, onsite collaboration, collaborative community, collaborative space, knowledge practices, co-creation, new idea generation, coordination, lifecycle

Disciplines

Business | Business Administration, Management, and Operations | Human Resources Management | Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods

Abstract

This paper inquires about how collaborative communities configure online and onsite collaboration practices throughout their lifecycle, paying specific attention to how knowledge practices and online-onsite collaboration practices interplay. While previous literature shows that the same online and onsite collaboration practices can be both good and bad for an organization’s ability to generate new knowledge, we show that this insight can be better understood at the light of an organization’s lifecycle. By studying the evolution of a collaborative community of designers, we show that different stages of development afford different types of community structuring, identity processes and knowledge practices, which in turn shape different needs in terms of online-onsite interplay. We contribute to the literature on collaborative spaces by underscoring the importance of considering hybrid workspaces where the interplay of onsite and online collaboration assumes complex and dynamic configurations.

Comments

This article originally appeared in CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation, volume 2, issue 1, 2018, published by CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Authors retain copyright. The article can also be found online at this link.

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