ISBN:
0199545499
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0199545502
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9780199545490
,
9780199545506
Language:
English
Pages:
XVII, 303 S.
,
graph. Darst.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Online-Ressource Oxford scholarship online. Management Online-Ausg. 2009. Online-Ressource
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. u.d. T. Community, economic creativity, and organization
DDC:
302.35
Keywords:
Communities of practice
;
Organizational learning
;
Konferenzschrift 2006
;
Organisatorisches Lernen
;
Kreativität
Abstract:
It has long been an interest of researchers in economics, sociology, organization studies, and economic geography to understand how firms innovate. Most recently, this interest has begun to examine the micro-processes of work and organization that sustain social creativity, emphasizing the learning and knowing through action when social actors and technologies come together in 'communities of practice'; everyday interactions of common purpose and mutual obligation. These communitiesare said to spark both incremental and radical innovation.In the book, leading international scholars critically
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Prologue: Community of Practice Then and Now ; 1. The Resurgence of Community in Economic Thought and Practice; PART I - Community, Creativity, and Economy; 2. Community and Economics; 3. 'The Art of Knowing': Social and Tacit Dimensions of Knowledge and the Limits of the Community of Practice; 4. Re-animating the Place of Thought: Transformations of Spatial and Temporal Description in the Twenty-First Century; PART II - Bridging Cognitive Distance
Description / Table of Contents:
5. Cognitive Distance in and Between Communities of Practice and Firms: Where Do Exploitation and Exploration Take Place, and How Are They Connected?6. Project Work as a Locus of Learning: The Journey Through Practice; 7. Breakthrough Innovation and the Shaping of New Markets: The Role of Communities of Practice; Part III - Achieving Relational Proximity; 8. Buzz Without Being There? Communities of Practice in Context; 9. Knowledge-Intensive Firms, Communities, and Creative Cities; 10. Open, But How Much? Growth, Conflict, and Institutional Evolution in Open-Source Communities
Description / Table of Contents:
Epilogue: Situated Learning and Changing PracticeIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Online-Ausg. 2009. Online-Ressource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199545490.001.0001
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