Organizational Knowledge and Communities of Practice.

Davenport, Elisabeth; Hall, Hazel

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Publication Date: 2002

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Organizational Knowledge and Communities of Practice.

Davenport, Elisabeth; Hall, Hazel

Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), v36 p171-227 2002

Discusses communities of practice and their role in organizational knowledge. Topics include situated learning and situated actions; distributed cognition; discourse analysis, conversation analysis, and genre analysis; performative perspective; interpretive approach; motivation; creating environments for participation in communities of practice; infrastructure; and online communities of practice. (Contains 229 references.) (LRW)

Descriptors: Community, Computer Mediated Communication, Literature Reviews, Motivation, Online Systems, Organizational Climate, Organizational Theories

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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