The Social Life of Information: Brown, J.S., & Duguid, P. (2000). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. ISBN 0-87584-762-5. 320 pages

By John M. Silvester. Internet and Higher Education, 2000

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Diasporas and Technology Transfer (2001, background): “One, knowledge and technology continues to have a tacit element and its social context continues to be critically important in how it is transmitted and received (Brown and Duguid, 2000).”
Nodes, networks and proximities: on the knowledge dynamics of the Medicon Valley biotech cluster (2004, background): “The set of local actors, which are tuned into the knowledge circulation (the buzz) can thus be characterised as a community of practice (Brown & Duguid, 2000).”
Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography Venture Capital in the “Periphery”: The New Argonauts, Global Search, and Local Institution Building (2008, background): “389 V EN T U R E C A PITA L “communities of practice” in general (Brown and Duguid 2002; Lave and Wenger 1991).”
Building Project Capabilities: From Exploratory to Exploitative Learning (2004, background): “They are often set up as a separate pilot group to explore a new opportunity on a trial basis and to provide room for new ways of thinking and acting at a distance from the mainstream organization (Brown and Duguid 2000: 154).”