Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the premise that organizationally defined communities of practice can be a valuable strategic learning tool for management. Design/methodology/approach: It is a quantitative study in a single organization. The authors analyzed data from 1,082...

Purpose – This empirical paper aims to show how communities of practice have been used as a tractable management tool to operationalize strategy in practice. The analysis shows how CoPs can be used in business to find traction in order to achieve strategic goals. Design/methodology/approach...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw on emerging ideas related to the concept of entrepreneurial leadership which emphasises a “distributed” model synonymous with terms which indicate that authority is decentralised (“shared”, “team”, “democratic”,...