scholarly journals Book review : Creating Communities of Practice: Entrepreneurial Learning in a University-Based Incubator

2021 ◽  
pp. 026624262110507
Author(s):  
Ali Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Entrepreneurial Learning

scholarly journals Book Review: Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Natalie Mahan
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Library Professionals

The refrain that reappears throughout Leveraging Wikipedia is that Wikipedia and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, museums) are natural allies and a fair amount of text is dedicated to convincing the reader of this. It promises practical strategies for putting this alliance to work and ultimately delivers on that promise, if in a circuitous and somewhat repetitive way. After the first few chapters it becomes clear that there are only so many established ways for library professionals to harness the audience and infrastructure of Wikipedia for the benefit of their library. The authors offer a wide array of examples for how they tailored these tried and true methods for the specific niche of their work. The task of building on this existing foundation with innovative new partnerships between Wikipedia and libraries rests on the shoulders of the reader. 

Entrepreneurial learning behaviour of community insiders

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dag Håkon Haneberg ◽  
Lise Aaboen
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Learning Behaviour ◽  
Entrepreneurial Learning ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Adaptive Process ◽  
Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique ◽  
Socially Situated ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeThe purpose of the present paper is to explore entrepreneurial learning at the centre of communities of practice.Design/methodology/approachLearning perspectives from the community of practice concept are applied to interpret and discuss results from an in-depth empirical investigation using a novel qualitative method, the Zaltman metaphor elicitation technique (ZMET), to study the entrepreneurial learning behaviour of ten coaches in a student venture incubator. The coaches are students with a certain level of entrepreneurial experience. Given their coaching roles and practices, the coaches are considered “community insiders”.FindingsThe findings show how the socially situated entrepreneurial learning of community insiders could be considered an adaptive process following multiple learning trajectories depending on with whom and about what the entrepreneur involves in social relationships.Practical implicationsPolicy makers seeking to facilitate communities of practice should enable learning activities for community insiders and organic development in addition to networking events and support for the entire ecosystem in order to enable bridging of communities of practice.Originality/valueThe present paper focuses on the entrepreneurial learning of community insiders using a novel qualitative method, ZMET. The paper empirically demonstrates that community insiders learn through an adaptive process and participation in multiple communities of practice. This is both in interaction with the nascent entrepreneurs whom they coach as well as when interacting with other community insiders.

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