artefacts


 * Artefacts/artifacts**

e.g. in **communities of practice context**

An artefact, in the context of CoPs theory, indicates objects, articles and 'things' which have been created by the community of practice (CoP) to assist the members in their work and which may have some of the community's knowledge embedded in them. Artefacts do not have to be concrete, (a process or procedure may be an artefact), (Kimble & Hildreth, 2005, p. 2994)

e.g. in KM context Newman, (2002) e.g. >> Newman, B. (2002). Agents, artifacts, and transformations: The foundation of knowledge flows. In C. W. Holsapple (Ed.), //The Knowledge Management Handbook//. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer.

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 * References**

Kimble, C., & Hildreth, P. (2005b). Virtual communities of practice. In M. Khosrowpour (Ed.), //Encyclopedia of information science and technology// (pp. 2991-2995). Hershey, PA; London, UK: Idea Group Reference.

Newman, B. (2002). Agents, artifacts, and transformations: The foundation of knowledge flows. In C. W. Holsapple (Ed.), //The Knowledge Management Handbook//. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer.