The Learning Organization: Volume 14 Issue 1

Japan's learning communities in Hewlett‐Packard Consulting and Integration: Challenging one‐size fits all solutions

Florian Kohlbacher, Kazuo Mukai

This paper aims to explain and analyze community‐based corporate knowledge sharing and organizational learning, the actual use of communities in Hewlett Packard (HP) Consulting…

Consultants: love‐hate relationships with communities of practice

Katja Pastoors

This paper aims to explores consultants' experiences of communities of practice (CoPs) in one of the world's largest information technology companies against organisational…

Managing intentionally created communities of practice for knowledge sourcing across organisational boundaries: Insights on the role of the CoP manager

Thomas N. Garavan, Ronan Carbery, Eamonn Murphy

The purpose of this article is to explore strategies used by communities of practice (CoPs) managers when managing intentionally created CoPs.

Emergent communities of practice in temporary inter‐organisational partnerships

Rein Juriado, Niklas Gustafsson

The paper aims to discuss the emergence of communities of practice in a temporary event organisation involving public and private partners.

Scratching beneath the surface of communities of (mal)practice

Jon Pemberton, Sharon Mavin, Brenda Stalker

This paper seeks to surface less positive aspects of communities of practice (CoPs), regardless of emergent or organisationally managed, grounded in political‐power interactions…

Developing communities of innovation by identifying innovation champions

Elayne Coakes, Peter Smith

The purpose of this paper is to propose that a form of communities of practice (CoP), a community of innovation (CoInv), is the best support for sustainable innovation. It aims to…

Emerald at 40

Rebecca Marsh

CoPs: one size fits all?

Jon Pemberton, Sharon Mavin