Communities of Practice

Igor Pyrko

Chapter 2.9 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Strategy as Practice, 2025, pp 138-141 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Communities of Practice (CoPs) are groups of people who regularly interact to develop shared practice, solve problems together, create new ideas, and learn from one another. The idea of CoPs is considered a foundational concept in organisation and management theory because it contributed to today's popularity of practice theory and helped to point scholarly attention towards studying practices in work settings. CoPs have also been applied widely to the debates on strategic management – particularly, how CoPs are deployed to support strategy implementation and how they help develop innovative capabilities within and across organisations. This section elaborates on the relevance of CoPs to SAP and thereby builds the pathway for new research directions. While doing so, it focuses on two key aspects of CoPs – the notions of i) Legitimate Peripheral Participation and ii) Landscapes of Practice. While these CoP themes are not new, they have been overlooked in SAP research and are highly relevant to studying phenomena traditionally of great interest to the SAP community.

Keywords: Communities of Practice (CoPs); Organisational learning; Legitimate Peripheral Participation; Strategy implementation; Shared practices; Innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035315956
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