TY - JOUR
T1 - Facilitating cross-border rural micro-firm knowledge exchange: A community of practice perspective
T2 - A community of practice perspective
AU - Reinl, Leana
AU - Owens, Eleanor
AU - Kelliher, Felicity
AU - Harrington, Denis
PY - 2015/8/1
Y1 - 2015/8/1
N2 - Knowledge sharing enhances the capability of rural microfirms to facilitate economic growth, competitiveness and employment. Knowledge exchange research predominantly focuses on larger firms in the same or related industries, and is of limited relevance in a rural micro-firm context, owing to significant differences in resource availability which can result in strategic knowledge constraints and the meagre development of micro-firms and the regions in which they reside/operate. The aim of this research is to explore the knowledge exchange criteria of rural micro-firms in a cross-border facilitated learning network (FLN). Drawing on the 'community of practice' perspective and the closely connected learning network literature, the authors observe and map FLN knowledge exchange activities over a three-year period. The resultant rural FLN knowledge exchange framework demonstrates that discipline and sector-specific barriers can be overcome through cyclical FLN interventions sensitive to the social proximity requirements necessary for effective cross-border knowledge exchange.
AB - Knowledge sharing enhances the capability of rural microfirms to facilitate economic growth, competitiveness and employment. Knowledge exchange research predominantly focuses on larger firms in the same or related industries, and is of limited relevance in a rural micro-firm context, owing to significant differences in resource availability which can result in strategic knowledge constraints and the meagre development of micro-firms and the regions in which they reside/operate. The aim of this research is to explore the knowledge exchange criteria of rural micro-firms in a cross-border facilitated learning network (FLN). Drawing on the 'community of practice' perspective and the closely connected learning network literature, the authors observe and map FLN knowledge exchange activities over a three-year period. The resultant rural FLN knowledge exchange framework demonstrates that discipline and sector-specific barriers can be overcome through cyclical FLN interventions sensitive to the social proximity requirements necessary for effective cross-border knowledge exchange.
KW - Community of practice
KW - Cross-border
KW - Facilitated learning network
KW - Knowledge exchange
KW - Rural micro-firms
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84939615339&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5367/ijei.2015.0191
DO - 10.5367/ijei.2015.0191
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84939615339
SN - 1465-7503
VL - 16
SP - 183
EP - 195
JO - International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
JF - International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
IS - 3
ER -