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Nicolini, Davide, Scarbrough, Harry and Gracheva, Julia (2015) Communities of practice and situated learning in healthcare. In: Ferlie, Ewan and Montgomery, Kathleen and Reff Pedersen, Anne, (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Health Care Management. Oxford: OUP. ISBN 9780198705109

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Abstract

In this chapter we examine the origins, nature and practical implications of the idea of ‘community of practice’. We argue that the concept has been used both to illuminate the challenges of creating a ‘learning culture’ in healthcare and to establish initiatives promote knowledge transfer and sharing. After clarifying some of the key concepts under discussion, in the chapter we illustrate the general features of this broad family of interventions, discuss their characteristics and summarise their key success factors. We also show how the ideas of community of practice and situated learning have been applied in diverse ways by healthcare organizations and funders, how theses ways of knowing and learning have been inserted into the established institutional order, and the mixed, but sometimes promising, outcomes which have flowed from them.

Item Type: Book Item
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Innovation, Knowledge & Organisational Networks Research Unit
Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Health services administration , Organizational learning, Communities of practice, Knowledge management, Organizational change
Publisher: OUP
Place of Publication: Oxford
ISBN: 9780198705109
Book Title: Oxford Handbook of Health Care Management
Editor: Ferlie, Ewan and Montgomery, Kathleen and Reff Pedersen, Anne
Official Date: March 2015
Dates:
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7 April 2016UNSPECIFIED
March 2015Accepted
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Date of first compliant deposit: 18 May 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access: 7 April 2018
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