...specifically with how knowledge is shared and distributed in a work context. Communities-of-practice (COP) are groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems,...topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in an area by interacting on an ongoing basis (Wenger 1998; Wenger et al. 2002). Knowledge in COP theory...

...boundaries nj any single organization. What Is a Community of Practice? COMMUNITIES OF p RACTic E are groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems,...expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis. Engineers who design a certain kind of electronic circuit called phase-lock loops find it useful...

...on the basis of communities of practice, whatever they call them . . . Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems,...expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis . . . And A community of practice is a unique combination of three fundamental elements: a domain...

...other inclusive tools, what we are building is a 'community of practice'. Communities of practice are: groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems,...deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area interacting on an ongoing basis (Wenger and Snyder 2000, Communities of Practice - Harvard Business...

...configurations (Wenger, 1998). 168 Wenger et al. (2002) define a community of practice as "a group of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their understanding and knowledge of this area by interacting on an ongoing basis". Liedtka (1999, p. 5)...

...1995) and Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Identity (Wenger, 1998). The latter defines communities of practice as "groups of people who share...problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their understanding and knowledge of this area by interacting on an on-going basis" (p. 4). The former describes...

...model being translated into the educational/mental health communities. Within communities of practice, groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic recognize that they can deepen their understanding by interacting on a regular basis (Wenger, McDermott,...

...teaching. Based on Wenger's conceptual framework, when a group of people share a joint enterprise and deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis we see the emergence of a Community of Practice. The important role that communities of practice...

...practice, a notion I shall explore further here. In later work Wenger and colleagues define a community of practice as '...group(s) of people who share a...expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis' (Wenger et al. 2002, p. 4). Crucially, communities of practice are seen as effective structures...

...sharing. Source: SMU survey (multiple response question; n = 132). of interest or practice, defined as "groups of people who share a concern, a set of...expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis" (Wenger et «/., 2002:4). One example is SMU's "Knowledge Force", a newly formed community of...