Lead Users as Facilitators of Knowledge Sharing in a Community Setting

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dc.contributor.author	Jeppesen, Lars Bo
dc.contributor.author	Laursen, Keld
dc.date.accessioned	2009-08-20
dc.date.accessioned	2009-08-20T08:18:53Z
dc.date.available	2009-08-20T08:18:53Z
dc.date.issued	2009-08-20
dc.identifier.isbn	9788778732538
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7870
dc.description.abstract	This paper introduces a model of knowledge sharing of lead users located in a public and unrestricted community of users. While existing literature on knowledge sharing focuses on allocation and collaboration processes inside or among companies we extend this to the community level. We then focus on how key agents — lead users — facilitate knowledge sharing in this setting and the features that moderate such sharing. Our results show that lead users are central to search and integration of knowledge from different external sources of relevance to their communities. Inside the community lead users are active in both “giving and taking” knowledge. Further, as users build up experience they tend to give more knowledge, thus suggesting a dynamic pattern of knowledge sharing in which increases in experience make way for important knowledge diffusion processes in the community.	en_US
dc.format.extent	25 s.	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.publisher	DRUID	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	DRUID Working Paper;07-24
dc.title	Lead Users as Facilitators of Knowledge Sharing in a Community Setting	en_US
dc.type	wp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt09aug20 liga	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	DRUID	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	DRUID	en_US
dc.idnumber	9788778732538	en_US
dc.publisher.city	Frederiksberg	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2007	en_US