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What is Communities of Position

Chapter 134
Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
Distinguished from Communities of Practice in that they tend to be more personally focused. Communities of Position are built around life stages (such as teenage years, university/college student years, marriage, or parenthood) and provide individuals with the opportunity to build relationships with others during that particular phase of their lives.
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Networks of Excellence as Virtual Communities
A. Draghici (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania), N. Matta (University of Technology of Troyes, France), G. Molcho (Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Israel), and G. Draghici (Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 9
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch134
Abstract
The “Communities of Practice” concept was first used in relation to the learning process in 1991 by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger (1991) at the Institute for Research on Learning as part of an attempt to “rethink learning.” In 1998, Wenger extended this concept and applied it to other contexts, including organizational settings (Wenger, 1998).
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