...Ricardo Colomo‐Palacios; Isuru Fernando Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a case study from which a framework for the purposeful building of knowledge communities by means of social media is formulated. Design/methodology/approach The approach first takes the form of a literature...

...Maria Jakubik Purpose How people learn and create knowledge together through interactions in communities of practice (CoPs) is not fully understood. The purpose of this paper is to create and apply a model that could increase participants' consciousness about knowledge creation processes...

...Jon Pemberton; Sharon Mavin; Jon Pemberton; Sharon Mavin; Brenda Stalker Purpose This paper seeks to surface less positive aspects of communities of practice (CoPs), regardless of emergent or organisationally managed, grounded in political‐power interactions. Examples are provided from the authors...

...Jon Pemberton; Sharon Mavin; Thomas N. Garavan; Ronan Carbery; Eamonn Murphy Purpose The purpose of this article is to explore strategies used by communities of practice (CoPs) managers when managing intentionally created CoPs. Design/methodology/approach Four intentionally created CoPs...

...Jon Pemberton; Sharon Mavin; Katja Pastoors Purpose This paper aims to explores consultants' experiences of communities of practice (CoPs) in one of the world's largest information technology companies against organisational strategies. The research focus concerns experiences of formal top‐down...

...Jon Pemberton; Sharon Mavin; Elayne Coakes; Peter Smith Purpose 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 outline a method for identifying champions...

...Jon Pemberton; Sharon Marvin; Florian Kohlbacher; Kazuo Mukai Purpose 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 and Integration (CI) and their role in leveraging...

...Jon Pemberton; Sharon Mavin; Rein Juriado; Niklas Gustafsson Purpose The paper aims to discuss the emergence of communities of practice in a temporary event organisation involving public and private partners. Design/methodology/approach The study employs qualitative methods in the form of 31...

... but illustrates how technology can be used successfully to assist in the knowledge sharing processes across time, space and virtuality. Elayne Coakes can be contacted at: coakese@wmin.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Communication technologies Portals Communities Knowledge sharing...

... for the distribution of funding within organizations including governments. This article attempts a similar rebalancing in respect of the use of social networks in knowledge management; in particular it looks at a switch from seeing communities as an aggregation of function to the more adaptive concept...