Title
A Review of Community of Practice in Organizations: Key Findings and Emerging Themes
Abstract
Considerable research has been conducted in the area of Communities of Practice (CoP) over the past two decades. This concept, introduced and popularized Brown and Duguid (1991), has been applied in practice and has formed the basis of numerous scholarly articles. This paper takes a small step towards reviewing the extant literature on CoPs, focusing only on empirical papers. We use the following three step process for the literature review - 1) develop a criteria for the types of articles to be included in our analysis, 2) a literature search strategy, and 3) prepare a scheme for categorizing and analyzing the articles. Based on the review, we synthesize the literature on CoPs within the organizational context and uncover key emerging themes which can be used to reveal research gaps for future work.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/HICSS.2011.26
HICSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
key findings,considerable research,literature search strategy,extant literature,communities of practice,organisational aspects,research gap,organization science,emerging themes,reviews,literature review,numerous scholarly article,small step,future work,empirical paper,step process,lead
Organizational context,Computer science,Knowledge management,Extant taxon,Community of practice,Management science
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-1605
978-1-4244-9618-1
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.55
13
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anukrati Agrawal1564.81
K. D. Joshi273959.01