Overview
- New methods of informal learning with Co.
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Information Science and Knowledge Management (ISKM, volume 13)
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For two decades or more managers and theorists have argued about the role of Communities of Practice (CoPs) in Knowledge Management: how and why do they work or not work? can or should they be managed? do they or do they not contribute to sustained learning? This lucid and compelling book clears up the mess. After setting the theoretic scene, Hara uses her considerable skill as a trained ethnographer to provide accounts of CoPs in action, observing and reporting on the work of both face-to-face and online communities. She shows how CoPs produce, sustain and develop cultural knowledge in a process of localized organizational learning that supports members through good times and bad. Hara is a talented writer: the extended accounts of work in Public Defender work in two different County Courts are compelling reading. Specialists and non-specialists alike can learn from this text: Hara’s emphasis on identity and culture and her findings on the specific and varied effects of IT in Communities of Practice are important contributions to thinking about KM.
Elisabeth Davenport
Professor Emeritus
Napier University, Edinburgh
Authors and Affiliations
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Bloomington School of Library & Information Science (SLIS), Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
Noriko Hara
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Communities of Practice
Book Subtitle: Fostering Peer-to-Peer Learning and Informal Knowledge Sharing in the Work Place
Authors: Noriko Hara
Series Title: Information Science and Knowledge Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85424-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-85423-4Published: 13 October 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09910-6Published: 17 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-85424-1Published: 20 October 2008
Series ISSN: 1568-1300
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 138
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Computer Communication Networks, Social Sciences, general, Computers and Society, Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Information Systems and Communication Service, Professional & Vocational Education