Similarly, Brown and Duguid (2001) called for a re-think of the trade-off between the two.
The second way is to
think of the continuum as running from information and knowledge
sharing to knowledge creation and development. This is similar to
the first, but by no means identical with it. Thirdly, on the one hand
enhancing IT solutions appear to be the most popular means to improve
information and knowledge sharing. On the other hand
enhancing social aspects such as communities of practices (CoPs)
or trust and commitment seems to be useful to improve effective
knowledge sharing and knowledge development, following the
two ‘‘polar’’ strategies of Hansen, Nohria, and Tierney (1999). Again,
this is by no means a perfect correlation with other two ways of
looking at the continuum. In the next section, we use the exploitation/
exploration version for the main presentation.