DIVERSITY OF PERCEPTION OF THE DYNAMICS BETWEEN COLLECTIVE IDENTITY AND INNOVATION IN COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150057
Author(s):  
SABINE CARTON ◽  
ISABELLE CORBETT-ETCHEVERS ◽  
ARMELLE FARASTIER ◽  
SANDRINE FINE-FALCY
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Energy Management ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Innovation Capacity ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Collective Capacity

The paper explores how the collective identity of a community of practice contributes to the development of innovation capacity. Specifically, we question how members’ perception of collective identity influences their perception of individual and collective capacity to innovate, whether different dynamics are at work between collective identity and innovation capacity, and finally how individual factors can explain these different dynamics. Empirically, we studied the communities of practice at Schneider Electric, a world leading company in energy management and automation. We surveyed 672 members of communities of practice in order to understand their relationship to their community. Our findings highlight the relationship between the perception of CoP collective identity and innovation capacity and suggest that (1) the three dimensions of collective identity play a role on members’ perception of knowledge sharing and CoP contribution to innovation capacity and also that (2) this influence may act differently depending on members’ profiles.

A Conceptual Proposition

2016 ◽  
pp. 1921-1934
Author(s):  
Ahmad Vazehi Ashtiani ◽  
Sharmila Jayasingam
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Contextual Influence ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Resource Based Theory

This conceptual paper proposes social capital as a possible moderator of the relationship between commonly identified knowledge sharing enablers in the literature and knowledge sharing (KS). A literature review was carried out to determine the contextual influence of the level of social capital within communities of practice (CoPs). Propositions were developed based on a review of past studies addressing KS enablers and KS. The literature review revealed that prior studies built on resource-based theory (RBT) and knowledge-based view of the firm (KBV) focused on organizational enablers of KS without any concern for the contextual influence such as the level of social capital of CoPs. Further analysis indicated that social capital could possibly moderate the impact of commonly identified KS enablers. These insights are presented as propositions in this conceptual paper. This paper addresses a gap in the area of KS. It questions the results of past studies and proposes the needs to consider the level of social capital when identifying appropriate KS enablers.

Chemistry outreach as a community of practice: investigating the relationship between student-facilitators’ experiences and boundary processes in a student-run organization

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1095-1109
Author(s):  
Stephanie Santos-Díaz ◽  
Marcy H. Towns
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Informal Learning ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Conceptual Understanding ◽  
Student Organizations ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Informal Learning Environment ◽  
Prior Experiences ◽  
The Relationship

Previous work on chemistry outreach has mainly focused on designing and implementing demonstrations for outreach. Recent studies indicate student organizations are at the forefront of chemistry outreach and described their outreach practices and conceptual understanding of demonstrations. However, more research is needed regarding the experiences of facilitators leading outreach events to understand their motivation, what they are gaining from participating, how they are contributing to the community, etc. By providing this information, we can give more structure to outreach initiatives as an informal learning environment. This work is part of a larger study that explores the relationship between leadership in student organizations and chemistry outreach events. Here, we present how diversity plays a role in chemistry outreach, as informed by interviews involving nine graduate students who actively participated in outreach. Communities of practice (CoP) has been used as a framework to describe learning environments and student organizations participating in outreach can be thought of as a CoP. The findings suggest diversity and inclusion influence boundary processes of the student organization as a CoP. Specifically, students’ prior experiences related to gender, race/ethnicity, education and other outreach events play a role in their purpose for doing chemistry outreach, how they contribute to planning of events and how they interact with the audience of outreach events.

Linking Organisational Culture and Communities of Practice

2011 ◽  
pp. 340-345
Author(s):  
Anzela Huq ◽  
Jawwad Z. Raja ◽  
Duska Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Organisational Culture ◽  
Organisational Learning ◽  
Organisational Knowledge ◽  
The Future ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this article is to identify a link between organisational culture and communities of practice. We propose that the informal nature of communities of practice places great limitations in terms of management and control and that for their purpose—which is primarily to share tacit organisational knowledge and enhance organisational learning—it is fatalistic to try to impose and enforce control. Rather, these communities ought to be left alone to formulate their knowledge sharing activities, and management comes in to provide the support, both cognitive and practical in terms of resources, to ensure that time spent at work is productive, and the knowledge is well spread and used throughout. So, not only do we intend to identify a link between culture and communities of practice, but we will demonstrate that the former has great implications in the survival and success of the latter. A review of the most prolific literature is provided, followed by a debate about the relationship between these two distinct concepts, followed by our visions for the future.

Exploring the relationships among tacit knowledge sharing, communities of practice and employees’ abilities: The case of KADDB in Jordan

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Orsan Alzoubi ◽  
Ala’aldin Alrowwad ◽  
Ra’ed Masa’deh
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Tacit Knowledge Sharing ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose This study aims to assess the relationships among tacit knowledge sharing, communities of practice (CoPs) and employees’ abilities to solve problems, customer’s satisfaction and innovation. Design/methodology/approach This quantitative research aims to examine the causal relationships among the key study variables. A questionnaire-based survey was developed to evaluate the research model by drawing a convenience sample that includes 219 employees working in the King Abdullah Design and Development Bureau which is located in Amman, Jordan. Surveyed information was examined following the structural equation modelling procedures. Findings Results revealed that sharing tacit knowledge in defence organizations had no direct effect on employees’ abilities to solve problems, customer’s satisfaction and innovation, while there was an affirmative effect to CoPs on employees’ abilities in those areas. Also, this study showed that CoPs had a significant mediating role to play in the relationship between sharing knowledge and employees’ abilities in terms of solving work problems, customer’s satisfaction and innovation. Research limitations/implications Findings of this study have laid the basis for future studies related to examining the effect of tacit knowledge sharing and the CoPs on improving employees’ abilities as preconditions for organization performance. These findings can be supported by conducting further research studies to examine the large samples of defence companies to give deeper meanings and insights to the relationship among the key study variables. The authors recommend expanding future studies and examine the mediating role of other social learning methods such as mentoring and storytelling on the relationship between sharing tacit knowledge and employees’ abilities. Practical implications The research model may enable managers and practitioners to make decisions related to the improvement of collective learning by encouraging employees’ engagement in the process of tacit knowledge sharing. The model also helps managers to understand the role of CoPs as a knowledge sharing tool that contributes to increasing employees’ abilities and organizational competitiveness. Furthermore, the research model can be a step forward for further research studies on the relationships among tacit knowledge sharing, CoPs and employees’ abilities. Social implications The suggested model can act as the promising step for continuous improvement to the defence industry in terms of producing high-quality products and services that protect national security, humans’ lives and society at large from enemies and terrorist groups. Originality/value In spite of the fact that most academic studies on knowledge management show a positive relationship between tacit knowledge sharing and organizational performance, a few studies have examined the effect of mediating the CoPs on relationships between sharing tacit knowledge and employees’ abilities as preconditions for raising the performance of the organizations working in security and defence industry. Hence, this research attempts to fill these gaps and gives a new direction for future research.

scholarly journals Strengthening Healthcare Service Delivery through Communities of Practice among Orthopedic Nurses in Federal Hospitals in Kano State, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
S. U. Ahmad ◽  
K. D. Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Healthcare Service ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Face Validity ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
The Relationship

Background: This study investigates use of community of practice as a strategy for strengthening healthcare service delivery among orthopedic nurses working at some selected federal hospitals. Aims: The specific objectives of the study targeted to investigate the level of awareness of Orthopedic Nurses about community of practice for knowledge sharing in Federal hospitals in Kano metropolis; and to determine the type of knowledge shared through Community of Practice by Orthopedic Nurses in the hospitals; as well as to find out how Community of Practice could improve healthcare delivery through knowledge sharing among Orthopedic Nurses in the Hospitals. Place of Study: The study was conducted at National Orthopedic Hospital, Dala-Kano, Nigeria and Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, Kano, Nigeria from July 2018 to January, 2019. Methodology: The study adopted quantitative research approach with a self-developed questionnaire that was validated using both content and face validity. A sample size of 134 from a population of 217 was drawn with response rate of 99.3%. The study hypotheses were tested using Chi Square and ANOVA tests using SPSS version 20.0. Results: The study found that the level of awareness about community of practice was high. The findings show that tacit and explicit types of Knowledge were generated and shared through community of practice.  Conclusion: The study concludes that there is significant relationship between awareness and use of community of practice for knowledge sharing among orthopedic nurses in the hospitals under study. Similarly, the study concludes that the relationship between community of practice and knowledge sharing is reflected in job performance.

scholarly journals Analysis of processes of cooperation and knowledge sharing in a community of practice with a diversity of actors

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 917-941 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay ◽  
Valéry Psyché
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Knowledge Development ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Web 2.0 Tools ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Voluntary Initiative ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
Over Time

According to some literature, communities of practice should normally stem from a voluntary initiative within an organization, whose members share some knowledge or expertise they wish to improve. However, over time, we have seen that communities tend to be created within organizations, in order to attain objectives of learning and knowledge development. This represents a challenge in the context of a community of practice taking the form of a research network in partnership that brings together members with common interests certainly, but spread out in different organizations and even several countries in which they perform different types of work. Also, the community does not exist in a vacuum and the explanation for what happens within it does not lie solely within the way the group interacts; indeed the individuals are part of different organizations and thus have different priorities, in relation with these affiliations. In this context, our research objective was to determine the factors that facilitate or hinder cooperation within a community of practice composed by two groups of actors, community and university actors. We thus found that individuals? different work affiliations might not facilitate the work within the CoP and that ICT/web 2.0 tools are not always a solution to increase participation in a CoP. Although participants are somewhat familiar with the tools, they mostly seem content with receiving and accessing information, not searching for a more active participation. Some explications and solutions will be proposed.

Identity in Latin American Regionalism: The Andean Community

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Germán C. Prieto
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Andean Community

Latin America is usually referred to as a homogeneous region that shares a collective identity based on common history, language and culture in general. As a result, it is broadly expected that collective identity should underpin and facilitate regional integration among Latin American states. However, the idea of a Latin American identity can be problematized, arguing that the concept of “Latin America” is more an exclusionary one than an integrator. Moreover, addressing collective identity as a social construction among state elites reveals the political disputes that lay at the backdrop of regionalism as a political enterprise. The relationship between identity and regionalism in Latin America can be discussed using a study of the role of collective identity in the unfolding of three case studies of the Andean Community. A constructivist approach can be engaged to show that it is possible to observe three dimensions of collective identity in the Andean Community, whose interplay led to advancing regionalism in certain ways but also caused disagreements and failures. Instead of taking a simplistic view of identity as the sharing of similarities, disentangling collective identity into cultural, ideological, and intergroup dimensions helps in understanding that identity is mostly a political issue and therefore a disputed one, and that analyzing the relationship between these three dimensions contributes to explaining the unfolding of regionalism in terms of advance and stagnation.

Improved organizational performance through communities of practice

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Schenkel ◽  
Robin Teigland
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Communication Channels ◽  
Learning Curves ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Stable Conditions ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to empirically investigate the relationship between communities of practice and performance.Design/methodology/approachInterviews, surveys, and company records from a case study of several communities of practice within a multi‐billion dollar construction project are investigated. Using the concept of learning curves, the authors look at the relationship between four communities of practice and their performance as well as taking an in‐depth look at the communication patterns within each community of practice.FindingsThree communities of practice that operated under stable conditions were found to exhibit improved performance. However, the one community of practice that experienced changes in its communication channels due to a physical move was never able to regain its previous ability to continuously improve, indicating a strong relationship between communication channels and performance.Research limitations/implicationsThe research presented here focuses only on communities of practice within one organization and one industry, thus limiting the degree to which the results can be generalized.Practical implicationsThe results provide support for the recent efforts by managers to sponsor and even “formally define” communities of practice within organizations. This article also illustrates how sensitive communities of practice are to changes in communication channels, thus alerting managers to the importance of understanding the impact of their actions on a community's cognitive processes and structural dimensions.Originality/valueThis paper offers empirical support for a positive relationship between communities of practice and performance, thus filling a research gap that has been difficult to fill due to the ethereal nature of communities of practice.

Effective use of digital applications promotes professional self-efficacy

VINE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alon E Hasgall ◽  
Snunith Shoham
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Professional Efficacy ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the relationship between the use of digital applications (DAs) in the daily life of organizational workers, and the workers’ professional self-efficacy. Design/methodology/approach – A hypothesis was tested that the digital literacy of organizational workers is positively correlated with their professional self-efficacy. To test the hypothesis, 300 Israeli organizational workers filled online questionnaires that assessed their daily pattern of DA usage (both during and after working hours) and their self-perceived professional efficacy. A linear regression analysis was performed to identify correlations between the frequency (one dimension) and effectiveness (three dimensions) of DA usage and the workers’ self-perceived professional efficacy (three dimensions). Findings – The three dimensions of the DA usage effectiveness (diversity of the DA used, diversity of the means and ease of access to the DA) were significantly and positively correlated with all three dimensions of professional self-efficacy (functional autonomy, work effectiveness and personal knowledge sharing). In contrast, the frequency of DA usage was not correlated with any of the three dimensions of professional self-efficacy. Practical implications – High digital literacy allows rapid and effective retrieval of specific networked content and an accessible means of multimedia communication. According to the ecological model of organizational knowledge management, knowledge develops through diverse interactions between workers and through their ability to retrieve and share knowledge. The findings of this study support this model and indicate that high digital literacy, manifested through easy access and diverse use of DA, increases professional self-efficacy and knowledge sharing and, thereby, the stability of the organization. Managers should thus encourage workers’ digital literacy by allowing convenient access to a wide range of DA, both during and after working hours, to increase the organizational ability to adapt to complex and rapidly changing environments. Originality/value – DA are innovative tools that were only recently developed. This is the first study to characterize the relationship between the use of DA in daily life and the vocational behavior of organizational workers.

The Complex Relations Between Communities of Practice and the Implementation of Technological Innovations

2003 ◽  
Vol 07 (02) ◽  
pp. 163-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Hislop
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Technological Innovations ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Innovation Projects ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Analytical Utility ◽  
Innovation Processes

The paper analyses the implementation of IT based innovations through a communities of practice lens. It is suggested that such a framework can add fresh insights to the dynamics of innovation processes. The paper makes an empirical and theoretical contribution to the innovation literature by both examining case study evidence from a number of technological innovation projects, and reflecting on the relationship between innovation processes and communities of practice. It is concluded that this relationship is not unidirectional. Not only did the communities of practice influence the innovation processes, for example through shaping important knowledge sharing processes, but the innovations also impinged on organizational communities of practice in important ways. The paper also proposes ways in which the analytical utility of the community of practice concept can be improved, for example by taking greater account of potential negative effects that communities of practice can have for innovation processes.

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