Purpose – The paper aims to provide comments on Michailova and Jormanainen's paper, “Knowledge transfer between Russian and Western firms: whose absorptive capacity is in question?” ( CPoIB , Vol. 7 No. 3). Design/methodology/approach – The paper offers a critical analysis of issues...

Communities of practices (CoPs) are groups of people with a common area of expertise or professional practice who interact to exchange, share, and learn from one another. CoPs play a crucial role in distinguishing, memorizing, and exchanging novel effective practices within the organization,...