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Communities Of Practice And Knowledge Management: A Descriptive Study, Las Comunidades De Practica Y La Gestion Del Conocimiento: Un Estudio Descriptivo

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  • Juan Carlos Alicea Rivera

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Research on knowledge management in organizations reveals that some projects fail because managers include technological and strategic dimensions in their design, but not human and sociocultural considerations. The formation of communities of practice in organizations represents an alternative to solve this problem, because its development includes the integration of all three factors. This study will explore what constitutes, as organizational phenomenon, such communities of practice, and how they differ on a structural and epistemological basis from knowledge management notion. The purpose of this descriptive study is to compare the fields of knowledge management and communities of practice, through identification, description and analysis of academic and popular articles published within those notions from 1995-2004. Although most of psychosocial and academic articles integrate all aspects of organizational knowledge: technological, managerial and psychosocial. They are different from knowledge management articles, which emphasize technological and popular orientation.

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  • Juan Carlos Alicea Rivera, 2011. "Communities Of Practice And Knowledge Management: A Descriptive Study, Las Comunidades De Practica Y La Gestion Del Conocimiento: Un Estudio Descriptivo," Revista Internacional Administracion & Finanzas, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 4(1), pages 83-100.
    • Handle: RePEc:ibf:riafin:v:4:y:2011:i:1:p:83-100
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    1. James D. Neeley, 1981. "The management and social science literatures: An interdisciplinary cross‐citation analysis," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 32(3), pages 217-223, May.
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    Keywords

    Job satisfaction; labor management; worker empowerment; corporate culture; training; personnel management; employee participation;
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    JEL classification:

    • A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
    • J54 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining - - - Producer Cooperatives; Labor Managed Firms
    • M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
    • M14 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility
    • M53 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Training
    • M54 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Labor Management

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