Handbook of Research on Communities of Practice for Organizational Management and Networking: Methodologies for Competitive Advantage

✍ Scribed by Olga Rivera Hernaez, Eduardo Bueno Campos

• Publisher: Business Science Reference
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 541
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Communities of practice have become increasingly influential within management literature and practice since being identified as an important mechanism through which individual, organizational, and social knowledge is held, transferred, and created. The Handbook of Research on Communities of Practice for Organizational Management and Networking: Methodologies for Competitive Advantage provides a sound understanding of the managerial implications of communities of practice as well as their opportunities and limits for knowledge management. A defining body of research, this collection of international findings fosters innovation within management and assists organizations in the improvement of performance.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
......Page 2
Editorial Advisory Board......Page 4
List of Contributors......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 7
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 11
Preface......Page 21
Acknowledgment......Page 28
A Communities of Practice Approach to Management Knowledge Dissemination......Page 30
Sharing Knowledge through Communities of Practice......Page 48
Communities of Practice as Work Teams to Knowledge Management......Page 61
Ba and Communities of Practice in Research and Strategic Communities as a Way Forward......Page 75
Unraveling Power Dynamics in Communities of Practice......Page 99
Conceptual Foundations of Communities of Practice as Organizational Structures......Page 112
Samson and Delilah as a Discourse of Communities of Practice......Page 131
Communities of Practice......Page 152
Knowledge Creation, Ba and CoP......Page 174
Community and Advantage in the Effects Industry......Page 191
People-Focused Knowledge Sharing Initiatives in Medium-High and High Technology Companies......Page 214
Communities of Practice Based Business Performance Evaluation......Page 230
Management Fads, Communities of Practice and Innovation......Page 251
Triple Helix Organisations, Communities of Practice and Time......Page 274
Cross-Organization Virtual CoP......Page 294
Future Tools for Sharing Knowledge......Page 312
The Roles of Peripheral Participants and Brokers......Page 326
CoPs & Organizational Identity......Page 337
Within- and Between- CoP Knowledge Sharing in Knowledge-Intensive Firms......Page 366
Knowledge Sharing Within and Between Communities of Practice in a Knowledge Intensive Organization......Page 392
Creativity in Action......Page 411
A CoP for Research Activities in Universities......Page 425
Communities of Practice in Public Administration......Page 450
Growing the eLIDA CAMEL Community of Practice Case Study......Page 472
Evaluating CoPs in Cancer Surgery......Page 485
Compilation of References......Page 496
About the Contributors......Page 527
Index......Page 534