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Communities of Practice in Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning

Communities of Practice in Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning

Celina M. Olszak, Ewa Ziemba
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 18
ISBN13: 9781609600914|ISBN10: 1609600916|EISBN13: 9781609600938
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-091-4.ch005
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Olszak, Celina M., and Ewa Ziemba. "Communities of Practice in Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning." Technologies for Supporting Reasoning Communities and Collaborative Decision Making: Cooperative Approaches, edited by John Yearwood and Andrew Stranieri, IGI Global, 2011, pp. 76-93. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-091-4.ch005

APA

Olszak, C. M. & Ziemba, E. (2011). Communities of Practice in Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning. In J. Yearwood & A. Stranieri (Eds.), Technologies for Supporting Reasoning Communities and Collaborative Decision Making: Cooperative Approaches (pp. 76-93). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-091-4.ch005

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Olszak, Celina M., and Ewa Ziemba. "Communities of Practice in Knowledge Management and Organisational Learning." In Technologies for Supporting Reasoning Communities and Collaborative Decision Making: Cooperative Approaches, edited by John Yearwood and Andrew Stranieri, 76-93. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-091-4.ch005

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Abstract

It is believed that communities of practice (CoPs) more and more frequently become a critical success factor for contemporary organisations. This article, following the network organisation paradigm, identifies the most important properties of CoPs, presents CoPs capacities in the socialisation, externalisation, combination, internalisation (SECI) knowledge spiral model, and suggests information technologies that support the work of CoPs. Theoretical considerations are contrasted against empirical research results obtained in 2008 while examining 160 organisations in Upper Silesia, the most industrialised and densely populated region in Poland.

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