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Title Handbook of research on communities of practice for organizational management and networking : methodologies for competitive advantage / [edited by] Olga Rivera Hernaez, Eduardo Bueno Campos
Published Hershey, PA : Business Science Reference, [2011]
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Description xxvii, 511 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Contents Contents note continued: ch. 10 Community and Advantage in the Effects Industry / Paul F. Skilton -- Section 3 Performance and Innovation -- ch. 11 People-Focused Knowledge Sharing Initiatives in Medium-High and High Technology Companies: Organizational Facilitating Conditions and Impact on Innovation and Business Competitiveness / Josune Saenz -- ch. 12 Communities of Practice Based Business Performance Evaluation / Rajiv Khosla -- ch. 13 Management Fads, Communities of Practice and Innovation / Athanasios Hadjimanolis -- ch. 14 Triple Helix Organisations, Communities of Practice and Time / Kathryn J. Hayes -- ch. 15 Cross-Organization Virtual CoP: A Field Study in an Information Based Industry / Demosthenes Akoumianakis -- ch. 16 Future Tools for Sharing Knowledge: Virtual Communities in the Web3D / Maria del Puy Carretero -- Section 4 Knowledge Intensive Organizations --
Contents note continued: ch. 17 The Roles of Peripheral Participants and Brokers: Within and Beyond Communities of Practices / Emmanuel Josserand -- ch. 18 CoPs & Organizational Identity: Five Case Studies of NTBFs / M. Paz Salmador -- ch. 19 Within- and Between- CoP Knowledge Sharing in Knowledge-Intensive Firms / Karen Whelan -- ch. 20 Knowledge Sharing Within and Between Communities of Practice in a Knowledge Intensive Organization / Satu Natti -- Section 5 Sharing and Experiencing -- ch. 21 Creativity in Action: Creative Multimedia SMEs in Manchester / David Calvey -- ch. 22 A CoP for Research Activities in Universities / Gabriele Schiller -- ch. 23 Communities of Practice in Public Administration: The Case of Catalonia's Government / Jesus Martinez -- ch. 24 Growing the eLIDA CAMEL Community of Practice Case Study / Jill Jameson -- ch. 25 Evaluating CoPs in Cancer Surgery / Elena Goubenova
Machine generated contents note: Section 1 Conceptualising -- ch. 1 A Communities of Practice Approach to Management Knowledge Dissemination / Joanne Roberts -- ch. 2 Sharing Knowledge through Communities of Practice / Reinaldo Plaz Landaeta -- ch. 3 Communities of Practice as Work Teams to Knowledge Management / Celia Zarraga-Oberty -- ch. 4 Ba and Communities of Practice in Research and Strategic Communities as a Way Forward / Irma Makarainen-Suni -- ch. 5 Unraveling Power Dynamics in Communities of Practice / Cristina Chisalita -- ch. 6 Conceptual Foundations of Communities of Practice as Organizational Structures / Mario Perez-Montoro -- Section 2 Contextualising -- ch. 7 Samson and Delilah as a Discourse of Communities of Practice / Jennifer Adelstein -- ch. 8 Communities of Practice: Context Factors that Influence their Development / Edurne Loyarte -- ch. 9 Knowledge creation, Ba and CoP: The Experience at IADE-UAM / Cecilia Murcia Rivera --
Summary "This book provides a sound understanding of the managerial implications of communities of practice as well as their opportunities and limits for knowledge management"--Provided by publisher
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Knowledge management.
Management.
Organizational learning.
Author Bueno Campos, Eduardo.
Rivera Hernáez, Olga.
LC no. 2011003702
ISBN 1605668028 (hbk.)
1605668036 (ebook)
9781605668024 (hbk.)
9781605668031 (ebook)