Title
The rise of social product development
Abstract
The aim of the paper is to discuss the rising potential of social software to increase the knowledge management capabilities of virtual product development teams. It presents six fundamental transitions, elaborated from the empirical findings, which justify the rise of a more bottom-up, social creation and sharing of engineering knowledge in the virtual organisation. The study suggests that traditional engineering knowledge management approaches alone are not sufficient to support development activities in the virtual organisation, and that such teams display an increasing demand for social, comparatively lightweight and remixable platforms for bottom-up, social creation and sharing of knowledge.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1504/IJNVO.2012.048346
IJNVO
Keywords
DocType
Volume
knowledge management capability,virtual organisation,engineering knowledge,development activity,social software,fundamental transition,social creation,social product development,virtual product development team,traditional engineering knowledge management,empirical finding,sociology,product development,computer science,innovation,applied mechanics
Journal
11
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
2
5
0.42
References 
Authors
10
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marco Bertoni1232.43
Andreas Larsson2131.01
Åsa Ericson3162.55
Koteshwar Chirumalla4151.83
Tobias Larsson5172.29
Ola Isaksson6204.61
Dave Randall7709104.32