Abstract
In globalizing competitive markets knowledge exchange between business organizations requires incentive mechanisms to ensure tactical purposes while strategic purposes are subject to joint organization and other forms of contractual obligations. Where property of knowledge (e.g. patents and copyrights) and contract-based knowledge exchange do not obtain network effectiveness because of prohibitive transaction costs in reducing uncertainty, we suggest a robust model for peer produced knowledge within a distributed setting. The peer produced knowledge exchange model relies upon a double loop knowledge conversion with symmetric incentives in a network since the production of actor specific knowledge makes any knowledge appropriation by use of property rights by the actors irrelevant. Without property rights in knowledge the actor network generates opportunity for incentive symmetry over a period of time. The model merges specific knowledge with knowledge from other actors into a decision support system specific for each actor in the network in recognition of actor role differences. The article suggests a set of 9 static and 5 dynamic propositions for the model to maintain symmetric incentives between different actor networks. The model is proposed for business networks.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 37th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2004 |
Editors | Ralph H. Sprague, Jr. |
Number of pages | 12 |
Place of Publication | Los Alamitos, CA |
Publisher | IEEE |
Publication date | 2004 |
ISBN (Print) | 0769520561 |
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Publication status | Published - 2004 |
Event | Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2004 - Big Island, Hawaii, United States Duration: 5 Jan 2004 → 8 Jan 2004 Conference number: 37 |
Conference
Conference | Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2004 |
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Number | 37 |
Country/Territory | United States |
City | Big Island, Hawaii |
Period | 05/01/2004 → 08/01/2004 |
Sponsor | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
Series | Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences |
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ISSN | 1060-3425 |