The place of communities of practice in knowledge management studies: a critical review

Bolisani, Ettore; Scarso, Enrico

doi:10.1108/jkm-07-2013-0277

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“…Belonging to a destination or to a COP implies commitment to that organization but demands management to both instil and maintain drive, shared vision and leadership to moderate the power structures inherent in all organizations. Perhaps where a COP differs from a destination is in the fact that a COP depends upon a high degree of trust (Bolisani & Scarso, 2010). It is this notion of trust -or lack of it -that is central to the issues surrounding effective KM in tourism.…”

Section: Communities Of Practicementioning

confidence: 98%

Managing tourism knowledge

Cooper

2015

Tourism Recreation Research

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Knowledge management is an established academic subject area but tourism has come to this subject late. Knowledge management can provide tourism organizations and destinations with significant benefits in terms of innovation and competitiveness. The paper provides an overview of knowledge management and in particular a model of knowledge stocks and flows, emphasising the imperative of knowledge transfer and exchange as a competitive tool. The paper finally provides an overview of the contexts of tourism for knowledge management examining the concept of destinations as networks, the notion of communities of practice and the characteristics of tourism as a sector. Finally, the paper concludes with observations on the future of knowledge management and tourism.

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Section: Communities Of Practicementioning

confidence: 98%

Managing tourism knowledge

Cooper

2015

Tourism Recreation Research

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“…The findings of a recent study are here presented and expanded. The reader is addressed to Bolisani and Scarso (2014) for methodological details.…”

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“…In the same section, the importance that CoPs have assumed in the management literature is examined. The third section illustrates the central place that CoPs have in KM research and practice, and section four summarises the findings of a systematic review of the papers on CoPs published in leading KM journals, whose results have been presented in a recent study (Bolisani and Scarso 2014). In section five, hot issues and emerging trends as well as the potential implications for future research are discussed.…”

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Advances in Knowledge Management

Bolisani¹,

Handžić²

2015

Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning

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“…The community of practice may become entrenched with their 'ways of doing things', which then hinders their ability to learn and innovate (Roberts, 2006, p.630). Knowledge management within communities of practice is also ill-defined, but the general literature understands that the goal of communities of practice is to share knowledge and facilitate learning (Bolisani and Scarso, 2014;Iverson and McPhee, 2002). In the health field, knowledge management involves sharing implicit and explicit technical and cultural knowledge of the professional practice to peripheral members (Lave andWenger, 1991/2003).…”

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Action research: a process for developing professional capacity within a community of practice

Docherty

2017

IJKMS

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Learning within a community of practice is a common approach for competency development in the healthcare field. Despite the strengths of situated learning, hegemony can inhibit learning. This case study illustrates how action research was used to examine and challenge an entrenched training practice within the ultrasound community of practice. The action research process also resulted in an unintentional shift in the professional identities of two co-researchers. This case study examines action research as an existential process and concludes that action research can increase organisational capacity through the development of individual professional identity.Keywords: autoethnography; communities of practice; existential action research; knowledge management; ultrasonography.Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Docherty, M.A. (2017) 'Action research: a process for developing professional capacity within a community of practice', Int.

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The place of communities of practice in knowledge management studies: a critical review

Abstract: The paper illustrates and discusses the findings of a systematic literature review on CoPs focusing on papers published in the most influential Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital Journals

Cited by 76 publications

References 22 publications

Managing tourism knowledge

Managing tourism knowledge

Advances in Knowledge Management

Action research: a process for developing professional capacity within a community of practice

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