Communities of practice and organizational performance

By Eric L. Lesser, J. Storck. IBM Systems Journal, 2001

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Subfields: Communication, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Towards a Typology of Virtual Communities of Practice (2006, background): “An organization can either create a formal CoP governance structure where individuals are appointed to specific roles (Gongla & Rizzuto, 2001; Lesser & Everest, 2001) or leave roles and authority relationships to emerge through interaction around expertise ( Lesser & Storck, 2001 ).”
Understanding knowledge sharing in virtual communities: An integration of social capital and social cognitive theories (2006, background): “Shared language goes beyond the language itself; it also addresses “the acronyms, subtleties, and underlying assumptions that are the staples of day-to-day interactions” ([49], p.”
The Roles of STEM Faculty Communities of Practice in Institutional and Departmental Reform in Higher Education (2017, background): “Zboralski and colleagues (2006) suggest that, regardless of a specific topic area or sector, all CoPs are organized around two primary goals: transferring/exchanging knowledge (Lesser & Storck, 2001; McDermott, 1999; Stewart, 1996) and networking (Zboralski et al., 2006).”
Visualizing the Signatures of Social Roles in Online Discussion Groups (2007, background): “The hosts and users of online discussions would like to be able to identify the providers of the most valuable information (Wenger 1999; Lesser and Storck 2001) and cultivate communities of practice that support such sharing (Wenger, McDermott, and Snyder 2002).”
What Motivates Employees to Transfer Knowledge Outside Their Work Unit? (2005, background): “…to be an effective way to increase knowledge flow between disparate parts of organizations (Breu & Hemingway, 2002; Davenport & Prusak, 1998; Lesser & Storck, 2001; Wenger & Snyder, 2000) and to promote collective learning, which is more likely to result in knowledge that is collectively…”
Tourism and social policy: the value of social tourism (2009, background): “Holidays can bring contact with new communities of practice, which in turn can lead to increases in social capital and behavior change (Lesser & Storck 2001).”
Trust as an antecedent to knowledge sharing in virtual communities of practice (2007, background): “…have been described as groups of people “informally bound together by shared expertise and passion for a joint enterprise” (Wenger and Snyder 2000: 139), “playing in a field defined by the domain of skills and techniques over which the members of the group interact” (Lesser and Storck 2001: 831).”
Electronic Commerce and Organizational Innovation: Aspects and Opportunities (2003, background): “Communities of practice are related to such concrete organizational outcomes as reuse of intellectual capital developed during projects and faster response time to requests for proposals [61].”
Guiding the use of Grounded Theory in Doctoral studies – an example from the Australian film industry (2011, background): “…of knowledge Knowledge sharing was selected as a research topic as it has been found to improve organisational performance (Haas & Hansen, 2007; Lesser & Storck, 2001), to promote competitive advantage (Argote & Ingram, 2000), to enhance organisational learning (Argote, 1999), to increase…”