Welcome to the InfoSci Platform
Communities of Practice in Organizational Learning Strategies

Communities of Practice in Organizational Learning Strategies

Mario Perez-Montoro, Sandra Sanz
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781466699700|ISBN10: 1466699701|EISBN13: 9781466699717
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9970-0.ch014
Cite Chapter Cite Chapter

MLA

Perez-Montoro, Mario, and Sandra Sanz. "Communities of Practice in Organizational Learning Strategies." Handbook of Research on Effective Communication, Leadership, and Conflict Resolution, edited by Anthony H. Normore, et al., IGI Global, 2016, pp. 249-266. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9970-0.ch014

APA

Perez-Montoro, M. & Sanz, S. (2016). Communities of Practice in Organizational Learning Strategies. In A. Normore, L. Long, & M. Javidi (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Effective Communication, Leadership, and Conflict Resolution (pp. 249-266). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9970-0.ch014

Chicago

Perez-Montoro, Mario, and Sandra Sanz. "Communities of Practice in Organizational Learning Strategies." In Handbook of Research on Effective Communication, Leadership, and Conflict Resolution, edited by Anthony H. Normore, Larry W. Long, and Mitch Javidi, 249-266. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-9970-0.ch014

Export Reference

Mendeley
Favorite

Abstract

In recent years, the interest in and development of communities of practice (CoPs) has undergone exponential growth. However, this uncontrolled expansion has, to a large extent, led to the name of community of practice being attributed to working groups or communities that are not communities of practice. The aim of this work is to shed a little light on this confusion and identify and characterise communities of practice compared with other types of groups or organizational structures. To achieve it, first of all, we are going to introduce an intuitive and agreed definition of community of practice. In a second movement, we will identify and define the principal groups or organizational structures that are used, besides communities of practice, by organizations to improve their strategies when meeting these aims that they are pursuing. We will then present a comparison between these organizational structures or groups and communities of practice. The chapter ends by offering a number of conclusions and providing some guidelines on the future development of communities of practice.

Request Access

You do not own this content. Please login to recommend this title to your institution's librarian or purchase it from the IGI Global bookstore.