The Social Life of Information
The Social Life of Information
Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge
Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge
Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know
Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know
Knowledge and Organization: A Social-Practice Perspective
Organization Science
Community-Building with Web-Based Systems -- Investigating a Hybrid Community of Students
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Reality is our laboratory: communities of practice in applied computer science
Behaviour & Information Technology - Computer Support for Learning Communities
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The community of practice phenomenon has been extensively studied in qualitative terms, but there has been relatively little research using quantitative techniques. This study uses the common social network measures of connectedness, density, graph theoretic distance, and core / periphery fit to examine how groups defined by different characteristics align with community of practice theory. Specifically, it investigates the roles of job title, location, and management intention relative to the structural characteristics of communities of practice. Workers were assigned to groups based upon their job title, job group, division, location, and emergent behavior (results of hierarchical clustering). Initial results suggest that grouping employees by their emergent behavior yields network measures that are most closely related to community of practice theory.