Knowledge Communication in Global Organisations

7 Knowing as learning in Communities of Practice (CoP)

DOI: 10.4324/9781003015925-9

Chapter Contents

‘Learning’ and ‘knowing’

Meaningful participation

Reification and the tacit/explicit dimensions of knowledge

Organisational Communities of Practise

Discussion of the relation between Sensemaking and Communities of Practise

Case study: Henrik’s organisational Community of Practise

References

The focus on communication in Etienne Wenger’s (1998) Community of Practise (CoP) theory warrants its inclusion in this book. Through this focus, the theory fills a gap in Nonaka and Takeuchi’s (1995) theory of knowledge creation (see Chapter 6). Wenger argues that it is through participation in the construction, evolution and maintenance of a specific ...