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New knowledge and micro-level online organization: 'communities of practice' as a development framework
  The role of communities of practice in knowledge creation is recognized in a number of contexts. The authors take a socio-technical perspective and identify four characteristics of such communities: situated learning, situated action, distributed cognition and social infrastructure. These are combined into a loosely normative framework to define and analyze communities of practice at the level of online micro-organization. The framework is applied to three development projects: a reference service, a virtual enterprise initiative and a simulation of an electronic shopping mall. The authors discuss its potential in explaining and stimulating new knowledge in micro-level online work environments

  • Date:

    07 August 2002

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    IEEE Computer Society Press

  • DOI:

    10.1109/hicss.2001.926353

  • Library of Congress:

    HD28 Management. Industrial Management

  • Dewey Decimal Classification:

    658 General management

Citation

Davenport, E., & Hall, H. (2002). New knowledge and micro-level online organization: 'communities of practice' as a development framework. In R. Sprague (Ed.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Scienceshttps://doi.org/10.1109/hicss.2001.926353

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Keywords

"Communities of practice"; knowledge management; organizational knowledge; online organization;

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