he metaverse is transforming the way knowledge is created, shared and used in digital workplaces, yet existing research offers fragmented and unintegrated account of these developments. This study aims to address this gap by systematically identifying sociomateriality-related themes in the scholarly literature on metaverse-enabled workplaces and mapping them to SECI knowledge creation processes to conceptualize organizational knowledge building in immersive environments. Using structural topic modeling (STM), the study analyzed a corpus of peer-reviewed research articles on the metaverse and digital workplaces, revealing 25 hidden themes. Through cluster analysis, these 25 themes were grouped into five sociomateriality-aligned clusters, which subsequently mapped with the SECI (socialization, externalization, combination, internalization) to develop an integrated conceptual framework.
Developing knowledge in digital workplaces: a sociomaterial-SECI integrative framework
Maria Teresa Cuomo;
2025
Abstract
he metaverse is transforming the way knowledge is created, shared and used in digital workplaces, yet existing research offers fragmented and unintegrated account of these developments. This study aims to address this gap by systematically identifying sociomateriality-related themes in the scholarly literature on metaverse-enabled workplaces and mapping them to SECI knowledge creation processes to conceptualize organizational knowledge building in immersive environments. Using structural topic modeling (STM), the study analyzed a corpus of peer-reviewed research articles on the metaverse and digital workplaces, revealing 25 hidden themes. Through cluster analysis, these 25 themes were grouped into five sociomateriality-aligned clusters, which subsequently mapped with the SECI (socialization, externalization, combination, internalization) to develop an integrated conceptual framework.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
