Facilitating cross-border rural micro-firm knowledge exchange: A community of practice perspective
2015
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.
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