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What is Communities of Practice (Cop’s)

Chapter 11
Handbook of Research on Communities of Practice for Organizational Management and Networking: Methodologies for Competitive Advantage
“Groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their understanding and knowledge of this area by interacting on an ongoing basis” (Wenger et alter , 2002, p. 4).
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People-Focused Knowledge Sharing Initiatives in Medium-High and High Technology Companies: Organizational Facilitating Conditions and Impact on Innovation and Business Competitiveness
Nekane Aramburu (University of Deusto, Spain) and Josune Sáenz (University of Deusto, Spain)
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-802-4.ch011
Abstract
The aim of this chapter is to analyse the organizational conditions that foster the development of different people-focused knowledge sharing initiatives in medium-high and high technology companies, as well as the degree of influence of those initiatives on the ideation stage of innovation processes. Finally, considering that successful innovation is the one that helps to improve business competitiveness, the degree of influence of this innovation capability dimension on company performance is examined. For these relationships to be tested, an empirical study has been carried out among medium-high and high technology Spanish manufacturing firms with more than 50 employees and which carry out R&D activities. To this end, a questionnaire has been designed and submitted to the CEOs of the companies making up the target population of the research. Structural equation modelling (SEM) based on partial least squares (PLS) has then been applied in order to test the main hypotheses of the research.
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