Handbook of research on communities of practice for organizational management and networking
Subtitle: methodologies for competitive advantage
By: Olga Rivera Hernaez and Eduardo Bueno Campos, editors
Contributors: IGI Global
Publisher: IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA)
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hershey, Pa
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9781605668031; 9781605668024
Subjects: Knowledge management; Management; Organizational learning
Description: "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: Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on title screen (IGI Global, viewed May 4, 2011).
Table of contents: title: 1. A Communities of practice approach to management knowledge dissemination / Joanne Roberts; title: 2. Sharing knowledge through communities of practice / Eduardo Campos, Carlos Moreno, Reinaldo Landaeta; title: 3. Communities of practice as work teams to knowledge management / Celia Za rraga-Oberty; title: 4. Ba and communities of practice in research and strategic communities as a way forward / Irma Ma ka ra inen-Suni, Jianzhong Hong; title: 5. Unraveling power dynamics in communities of practice / Marcel Veenswijk, Cristina Chisalita; title: 6. Conceptual foundations of communities of practice as organizational structures / Sandra Sanz, Mario Pe rez-Montoro; title: 7. Samson and Delilah as a discourse of communities of practice / Jennifer Adelstein; title: 8. Communities of practice / Edurne Loyarte, Olga Herna ez; title: 9. Knowledge creation, Ba and CoP / Monica Somoza, Julio Prado, Cecilia Rivera; title: 10. Community and advantage in the effects industry / Paul Skilton; title: 11. People-focused knowledge sharing initiatives in medium-high and high technology companies / Nekane Aramburu, Josune Sa enz; title: 12. Communities of practice based business performance evaluation / Mei-Tai Chu, Rajiv Khosla; title: 13. Management fads, communities of practice and innovation / Athanasios Hadjimanolis; title: 14. Triple helix organisations, communities of practice and time / Kathryn Hayes; title: 15. Cross-organization virtual CoP / Demosthenes Akoumianakis; title: 16. Future tools for sharing knowledge / David Oyarzun, Amalia Ortiz, Mari a Carretero.; title: 17. The roles of peripheral participants and brokers / Franc ʹois Grima, Emmanuel Josserand; title: 18. CoPs &  organizational identity / Eduardo Campos, Mo nica Somoza, M. Salmador; title: 19. Within- and between- CoP knowledge sharing in knowledge-intensive firms / Thomas Garavan ... [et al.]; title: 20. Knowledge sharing within and between communities of practice in a knowledge intensive organization / Tuija La msa , Satu Na tti; title: 21. Creativity in action / David Calvey; title: 22. A CoP for research activities in universities / Willi Bernhard, Marco Bettoni, Gabriele Schiller; title: 23. Communities of practice in public administration / Mario Pe rez-Montoro, Jesu s Marti nez; title: 24. Growing the eLIDA CAMEL community of practice case study / Jill Jameson; title: 25. Evaluating CoPs in cancer surgery / Michael Fung-Kee-Fung, Robin Morash, Elena Goubanova.