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Les déterminants du fonctionnement communautaire. Une étude comparative

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  • Guillaume Soenen

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Communities of practice contribute to an organization?s social capital by facilitating the emergence of specific relational structures, which are characterized by attenuated opportunistic behaviours and a general system of exchanges. They constitute collective answers to inevitable prescription breakdowns. The functioning of a community is characterized by privileged knowledge exchanges, creation of new collective knowledge and gradual identification of members to the community. A comparative study of two intra-organizational communities of practice illustrates the role of catalysing factors such as leadership style, actors? interdependences, hierarchy of expertise and access to specific resources.

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  • Guillaume Soenen, 2006. "Les déterminants du fonctionnement communautaire. Une étude comparative," Revue française de gestion, Lavoisier, vol. 163(4), pages 139-153.
  • Handle: RePEc:cai:rfglav:rfg_163_0139
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