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Inter-organizational communities of practice: specificities and stakes

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  • Moingeon, Bertrand

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  • Quélin, Bertrand

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  • Dalsace, Frédéric

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  • Lumineau, Fabrice

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Inter-organizational communities of practice (IOCoPs) are today an emergent research topic and studies in this area are still in an exploratory phase. Theoretical mechanisms are vaguely specified and empirical studies are incipient. For this reason, this paper firstly aims at presenting the specificities and stakes of such organizational forms, establishing reference points for further research in this field. We will introduce the main features of IOCoPs and explain why they do not represent a mere subcategory of CoPs, but a unit of analysis per se. In this paper, we will follow a thematic approach to indicate IOCoPs’ specificities and stakes. We will thus look at the IOCoPs’ actors (in part I), IOCoPs as original organizational forms (part II), then IOCoPs’ life cycle (part III). Finally, we will synthesize IOCoPs’ distinctive features and conclude with a discussion on key interests of IOCoPs for both practitioners and academics.

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Paper provided by HEC Paris in its series Les Cahiers de Recherche with number 857.

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Length: 18 pages
Date of creation: 01 Nov 2006
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Handle: RePEc:ebg:heccah:0857

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Keywords: Community of practice; inter-organizational relationships; professional practice; expertise; knowledge management; learning; organizational boundaries; life-cycle;

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