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Environmental and Business Communities of Practice: Graduate Students Comparing Community‐Relevant Language

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  • Geneviève Mireille Perron
  • John F. (Jack) Duffy

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The theory of communities of practice has found much acceptance in the organizational and social sciences literature. Although applied frequently to assess or explain phenomena, it has seen little research to identify the presence of barriers between communities of practice, or even just differences between such entities. Using members of the environmental and business communities, the following study identifies different communities of practice based on their linguistic repertoire. It also shows that members of one community can identify the linguistic content of another community's linguistic repertoire, with attention to business and environmental management. The research not only offers credence to the theory of communities of practice based on their linguistic repertoire, but it also offers avenues for further research in the use of language as a means of identity and segregation in various forms of institutional contexts. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.

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  • Geneviève Mireille Perron & John F. (Jack) Duffy, 2012. "Environmental and Business Communities of Practice: Graduate Students Comparing Community‐Relevant Language," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 21(3), pages 170-182, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:bstrat:v:21:y:2012:i:3:p:170-182
    DOI: 10.1002/bse.725
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