Handbook of Research on Communities of Practice for by Olga Rivera Hernáez, Eduardo Bueno Campos

By Olga Rivera Hernáez, Eduardo Bueno Campos

Groups of perform became more and more influential inside administration literature and perform seeing that being pointed out as a big mechanism during which person, organizational, and social wisdom is held, transferred, and created. The guide of study on groups of perform for Organizational administration and Networking: Methodologies for aggressive virtue presents a legitimate figuring out of the managerial implications of groups of perform in addition to their possibilities and bounds for wisdom administration. A defining physique of study, this selection of foreign findings fosters innovation inside of administration and assists organisations within the development of functionality.

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Discourses: common language. Processes: explicit routines and procedures. Books, journals, magazines, business newspapers, CDs, videos, DVDs, television programmes, commonly accepted management principles, etc. Management qualifications and membership of management associations provide common discourse. g. Total Quality Management, Business Process Reengineering. Boundary Interactions Boundary encounters: visits, discussions and sabbaticals. Boundary practices: practices developed to facilitate the effective crossing of boundaries.

The balance of power between community members is a factor determining which knowledge is legitimized and which is not. A deeper appreciation of power and the related issue of trust within communities of practice would further enrich our understanding of the knowledge creation and diffusion process. A number of key communities of practice have been identified within the management knowledge field. As noted, these communities interact and overlap. Understanding these interactions and overlaps and their role in the knowledge creation and diffusion process is also an area requiring further consideration.

An important characteristic of an A Communities of Practice Approach to Management Knowledge Dissemination idea or technique is that it lends itself to multiple interpretations. Fransmann (1999, p. 3), in a study of innovation, refers to the concept of ‘interpretive ambiguity’ which ‘exists when the current information set is capable of yielding inconsistent inferences regarding what should be believed’. Under conditions of interpretive ambiguity actors ‘make a “leap” from the information which they have ….

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