Literature on Community of Practice: Academic Reading List

  • Amin, A., Roberts, J., (2008). Knowing in action: beyond communities of practice. Res. Policy, 37 (2), pp.353–369.
  • Bertels, H., Kleinschmidt, E. and Koen, P. (2011). Communities of Practice versus Organizational Climate: Which One Matters More to Dispersed Collaboration in the Front End of Innovation?*. Journal of Product Innovation Management, p.182-194.
  • Brace, C. and Geoghegan, H. (2010). Human geographies of climate change: Landscape, temporality, and lay knowledges. Progress in Human Geography, 35(3), pp.284-302.
  • Callister, D. (2013). Land Community Participation: A New “Public” Participation Model. Environmental Communication: A Journal of Nature and Culture, 7(4), pp.435–455.
  • Duguid, P., (2008). Community of Practice then and now. In: Amin, A., Roberts, J. (Eds.), Community, Economic Creativity, and Organisation. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
  • Eckardt, F. and Benneworth, P. (2018). The G1000 Firework Dialogue as a Social Learning System: A Community of Practice Approach. Social Sciences, 7(8), p.129.
  • Freed, A.F., (1999). Communities of practice and pregnant women: is there a connection? Language in Society. 28, pp.257–271.
  • Handley, K., Sturdy, A., Fincham, R., Clark, T., (2006). Within and beyond communities of practice: making sense of learning through participation, identity and practice. Journal of Management Studies. 43 (3), pp.641–653.
  • Jones, A. (2008). Beyond embeddedness: economic practices and the invisible dimensions of transnational business activity. Progress in Human Geography, 32(1), pp.71-88.
  • Kalafatis, S., Lemos, M., Lo, Y. and Frank, K. (2015). Increasing information usability for climate adaptation: The role of knowledge networks and communities of practice. Global Environmental Change, 32, pp.30-39.
  • Marshall, C., Shipman I., F., McCall, R. (1995). Making large-scale information resources serve communities of practice. Journal of Management Information Systems. 11 (4), pp.65–86.
  • Müller, F. and Ibert, O. (2015). (Re-)sources of innovation: Understanding and comparing time-spatial innovation dynamics through the lens of communities of practice. Geoforum, 65, pp.338-350.
  • Newman, G., Wiggins, A., Crall, A., Graham, E., Newman, S. and Crowston, K. (2012). The future of citizen science: emerging technologies and shifting paradigms. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 10(6), pp.298-304.
  • Raymond, C. and Robinson, G. (2013). Factors affecting rural landholders’ adaptation to climate change: Insights from formal institutions and communities of practice. Global Environmental Change, 23(1), pp.103-114.
  • van Weele, M., Steinz, H. and van Rijnsoever, F. (2017). Start-up Communities as Communities of Practice: Shining a Light on Geographical Scale and Membership. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 109(2), pp.173-188.
  • Watkins, C., Zavaleta, J., Wilson, S. and Francisco, S. (2017). Developing an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral community of practice in the domain of forests and livelihoods. Conservation Biology, 32(1), pp.60-71.
  • Wenger, E. (2000). Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems. Organization, 7(2), pp.225-246.
  • Wenger, E. (1998) Communities of practice: learning, meaning and identity. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

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