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Nicolini, Davide, Pyrko, Igor, Omidvar, Omid and Spanellis, Agnessa (2022) Understanding communities of practice : taking stock and moving forward. Academy of Management Annals, 16 (2). pp. 680-718. doi:10.5465/annals.2020.0330 ISSN 1941-6520.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2020.0330
Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Innovation, Knowledge & Organisational Networks Research Unit Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Communities of practice, Organizational learning, Technological innovations -- Management | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Academy of Management Annals | ||||||||
Publisher: | Academy of Management | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1941-6520 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 July 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 16 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 680-718 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.5465/annals.2020.0330 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | © 2022 Academy of Management | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 6 April 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 5 April 2023 |
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