Knowledge sharing and IT-support in far-flung teams

I’m working on a (German) excerpt of the highly interesting article on Using Far-Flung Virtual Teams for Managing Knowledge in Global Companies. If you are interested I got the entire article that was published in the Journal of Knowledge Management.
(If you want a copy please drop me a note).

Just to quote a line

[...]Knowledge-sharing and creation effectivness of far-flung teams is enabled by technology features and characteristics only to the extent that thes establish sharing practices and norms that become a habitual norm of action within the team. (p83)

Would be great to have a discussion on it!