... by sponsors to successfully guide CoPs. More specifically, the findings highlight a set of operational means used by top management – via sponsors – to supervise and facilitate best practice development and sharing within CoPs. Research limitations/implications The CoPs should be examined...

... if there are best practices that will help them to achieve this goal. Additionally a central system pushes documentation on best practices out to each plant. For each best practice received, the plant has to declare whether they will accept or reject the best practice. All plants are assumed to have best practices...

... Organizational behaviour Best practice An ongoing concern in organizations and research in organizations is how to become better at transforming an input to an output. The implementation of what has been denominated high‐performance work practices is seen as critical for obtaining high levels...