Handbook of research on communities of practice for organizational management and networking methodologies for competitive advantage /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Rivera Hernáez, Olga., Bueno Campos, Eduardo.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2011.
• Subjects: Knowledge management.; Organizational learning.; Management.; Basis model knowledge management; Business performance evaluation; Communities of practice as work teams; Critical success factors; Cross boundary learning trajectories; Evolution of communal practice; People-focused knowledge sharing initiatives; Power dynamics; Practice as organizational structures; Virtual communities of practice
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"This book provides a sound understanding of the managerial implications of communities of practice as well as their opportunities and limits for knowledge management"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• 1. A Communities of practice approach to management knowledge dissemination / Joanne Roberts
• 2. Sharing knowledge through communities of practice / Eduardo Campos, Carlos Moreno, Reinaldo Landaeta
• 3. Communities of practice as work teams to knowledge management / Celia Zárraga-Oberty
• 4. Ba and communities of practice in research and strategic communities as a way forward / Irma Mäkäräinen-Suni, Jianzhong Hong
• 5. Unraveling power dynamics in communities of practice / Marcel Veenswijk, Cristina Chisalita
• 6. Conceptual foundations of communities of practice as organizational structures / Sandra Sanz, Mario Pérez-Montoro
• 7. Samson and Delilah as a discourse of communities of practice / Jennifer Adelstein
• 8. Communities of practice / Edurne Loyarte, Olga Hernáez
• 9. Knowledge creation, Ba and CoP / Monica Somoza, Julio Prado, Cecilia Rivera
• 10. Community and advantage in the effects industry / Paul Skilton
• 11. People-focused knowledge sharing initiatives in medium-high and high technology companies / Nekane Aramburu, Josune Sáenz
• 12. Communities of practice based business performance evaluation / Mei-Tai Chu, Rajiv Khosla
• 13. Management fads, communities of practice and innovation / Athanasios Hadjimanolis
• 14. Triple helix organisations, communities of practice and time / Kathryn Hayes
• 15. Cross-organization virtual CoP / Demosthenes Akoumianakis
• 16. Future tools for sharing knowledge / David Oyarzun, Amalia Ortiz, María Carretero
• 17. The roles of peripheral participants and brokers / François Grima, Emmanuel Josserand
• 18. CoPs & organizational identity / Eduardo Campos, Mónica Somoza, M. Salmador
• 19. Within- and between- CoP knowledge sharing in knowledge-intensive firms / Thomas Garavan ... [et al.]
• 20. Knowledge sharing within and between communities of practice in a knowledge intensive organization / Tuija Lämsä, Satu Nätti
• 21. Creativity in action / David Calvey
• 22. A CoP for research activities in universities / Willi Bernhard, Marco Bettoni, Gabriele Schiller
• 23. Communities of practice in public administration / Mario Pérez-Montoro, Jesús Martínez
• 24. Growing the eLIDA CAMEL community of practice case study / Jill Jameson
• 25. Evaluating CoPs in cancer surgery / Michael Fung-Kee-Fung, Robin Morash, Elena Goubanova.