and communities of practice. A pragmatist philosophy such as this that allows for mixed methods research is most suitable … Konzept der Klima-Wissenssysteme. Es basiert auf Emanuel Adlers Theorie der kognitiven Evolution und Communities of Practice …

Although Communities of Practice have become a core concept in understanding how knowledge is managed within … organizations, there have been few studies of the praxis of formation of Communities of Practice. In this article, we report on a … Communities of Practice. We describe a theory to explain this phenomenon that is grounded in the data from the study. We conclude …

are developing communities of practice as strategic tools for knowledge development and sharing within the organization …