TY  - JOUR
T1  - The ANCOM-2 Solution to Support Knowledge Work
AU - , Tatiana Bouzdine Chameeva 
JO  - International Business Management
VL  - 1
IS  - 2
SP  - 12
EP  - 19
PY  - 2007
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1993-5250
DO  - ibm.2007.12.19
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2007.12.19
KW  - Knowledge work
KW  -causal mapping
KW  -dispersed groups
KW  -virtual teamwork
KW  -theory building
AB  - A knowledge worker today spends more than 70% of his time working collaboratively and not necessarily face to face, the team work often becomes asynchronized in time and place. Group support and a shared vision in this context become extremely important for an overall performance. The ANCOM-2 (Analysis and Comparison of Maps) solution based on the causal mapping technique contributes in many ways to existing research on eliciting knowledge from a group of experts. It combines the strengths of the idiographic approach used to capture the individual knowledge of experts in a form of causal maps and the nomothetic approach used to validate variables and relations between them through a final consensus causal map. The ANCOM-2 solution also proposes a segmentation of a group of experts analysing their reasoning paths. Another advantage of the method worth mentioning is the capacity to elicit knowledge from a group of experts without relying on group interaction and minimizing therefore biases associated with group decision-making. In addition, collective causal maps built by means of ANCOM-2 solution turn into a valuable tool in theory building. The results of several cases illustrate the ANCOM-2 solutions to support knowledge work in management studies.
ER  -