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UNDERSTANDING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE: TAKING STOCK AND MOVING FORWARD

Academy of Management Annals, ISSN: 1941-6067, Vol: 16, Issue: 2, Page: 680-718
2022
  • 42
    Citations
  • 0
    Usage
  • 147
    Captures
  • 4
    Mentions
  • 0
    Social Media
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  • Citations
    42
    • Citation Indexes
      42
  • Captures
    147
  • Mentions
    4
    • News Mentions
      3
      • News
        3
    • Blog Mentions
      1
      • Blog
        1

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Article Description

This paper provides a comprehensive, integrative conceptual review of work on “communities of practice” (CoPs), defined broadly as groups of people bound together by a common activity, shared expertise, a passion for a joint enterprise, and a desire to learn or improve their practice. We identify three divergent views on the intended purposes and expected effects of CoPs: as mechanisms for fostering learning and knowledge sharing, as sources of innovation, and as mechanisms to defend interests and perpetuate control over expertise domains. We use these different lenses to make sense of the ways CoPs are conceptualized and to review scholarly work on this topic. We argue that current debate on the future of work and new methodological developments are challenging the received wisdom on CoPs and offer research opportunities and new conceptual combinations. We argue also that the interaction between the lenses and between CoP theory and adjacent literatures might result in new theory and conceptualizations.

Bibliographic Details

Davide Nicolini; Igor Pyrko; Omid Omidvar; Agnessa Spanellis

Academy of Management

Business, Management and Accounting

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