The Concept of Team Transactive Memory Systems - Developing an Extended Model for Organizational Contexts

Volker Wagner

2014

Abstract

There is an ongoing research debate about how to conceptualize transactive memory systems and how they can potentially influence team performance in organizational contexts. Current research mostly seems to focus on the meta-knowledge about the team’s expertise distribution in combination with the transactive processes for encoding, storage, and retrieval of information. However, there is still confusion about the interrelations between different components of transactive memory systems. We discuss current issues and develop an extended model of team transactive memory systems which integrates shared task representations and interrelations between individual components to explain how and why teams manage knowledge for a specific task.

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Wagner V. (2014). The Concept of Team Transactive Memory Systems - Developing an Extended Model for Organizational Contexts . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2014) ISBN 978-989-758-050-5, pages 319-325. DOI: 10.5220/0005149903190325


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@conference{kmis14,
author={Volker Wagner},
title={The Concept of Team Transactive Memory Systems - Developing an Extended Model for Organizational Contexts},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2014)},
year={2014},
pages={319-325},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005149903190325},
isbn={978-989-758-050-5},
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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - Volume 1: KMIS, (IC3K 2014)
TI - The Concept of Team Transactive Memory Systems - Developing an Extended Model for Organizational Contexts
SN - 978-989-758-050-5
AU - Wagner V.
PY - 2014
SP - 319
EP - 325
DO - 10.5220/0005149903190325