COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY, LAS COMUNIDADES DE PRACTICA Y LA GESTION DEL CONOCIMIENTO: UN ESTUDIO DESCRIPTIVO

Juan Carlos Alicea Rivera

Revista Internacional Administracion & Finanzas, 2011, vol. 4, issue 1, 83-100

Abstract: Research on knowledge management in organizations reveals that some projects fail because managers include technological and strategic dimensions in their design, but not human and sociocultural considerations. The formation of communities of practice in organizations represents an alternative to solve this problem, because its development includes the integration of all three factors. This study will explore what constitutes, as organizational phenomenon, such communities of practice, and how they differ on a structural and epistemological basis from knowledge management notion. The purpose of this descriptive study is to compare the fields of knowledge management and communities of practice, through identification, description and analysis of academic and popular articles published within those notions from 1995-2004. Although most of psychosocial and academic articles integrate all aspects of organizational knowledge: technological, managerial and psychosocial. They are different from knowledge management articles, which emphasize technological and popular orientation.

Keywords: Job satisfaction; labor management; worker empowerment; corporate culture; training; personnel management; employee participation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A12 J54 M12 M14 M53 M54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.theibfr2.com/RePEc/ibf/riafin/riaf-v4n1-2011/RIAF-V4N1-2011-6.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ibf:riafin:v:4:y:2011:i:1:p:83-100

Access Statistics for this article

Revista Internacional Administracion & Finanzas is currently edited by Terrance Jalbert

More articles in Revista Internacional Administracion & Finanzas from The Institute for Business and Finance Research
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Mercedes Jalbert ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).