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Purpose – To investigate the role of clear organizational structure with communicating responsibilities, a practice of Knowledge Management, in developing shared understanding of requirements in GSD-an area that is very important but has, to date, not been addressed adequately. Design/methodology/approach – A controlled experiment was performed in an academic setting with two groups of geographically distributed students; the duration of the experiment was three months. The understanding patterns of both groups were observed by conducting multiple concept-mapping exercises. Findings – The results of the experiment revealed that clear organizational structure with communicating responsibilities helps to improve shared understanding of requirements in GSD. Research limitations – The sample size was rather small as only two groups of students participated in the experiment and each group consist of eight members from two different countries. Practical implications – The results of the study shows the importance of clear organizational structure with communicating responsibilities in GSD settings, these preliminary results will motivate the researchers to replicate the results in the future to contrast results using large sample size. Academic can use the results to build the definition of organizational structure with responsibilities and communication means between team members in GSD projects.