Community of Practice (CoP) -- The Professional Practitioners' Community

While browsing thru books on Amazon.com directed from a Google search on "community knowledge sharing", I found my current research interest to resemble a management research area "Community of Practice." Here are the three books that interest me and I would find a chance to look into them:

Communities of Practice: The Organizational Frontier, by E. Wenger and W. M. Snyder. Harvard Business Review (January 1, 2000). 12 pages.

Cultivating Communities of Practice, by E. Wenger et al. Harvard Business School Press (March 15, 2002). 352 pages.

Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity, by E. Wenger et al. Cambridge University Press (December 1, 1999). 336 pages.

All books link to Dr. Etienne C. Wenger so I looked up Google and got this link to him.

Happy researching!


Keywords: books, community-of-practice

Update: Nov 3, 05:

Here is Dr. Wenger's introductory article to the Community of Practice (CoP):

Communities of Practice: A Brief Introduction

A journal paper on processing knowledge for virtual communities of practice is also available on Science Direct:

Fu-ren Lin and Chih-ming Hsueh (2006). "Knowledge map creation and maintenance for virtual communities of practicenext term", Information Processing & Management, 42(2), March 2006.