A note on organizational learning and knowledge sharing in the context of communities of practice

Albena Antonova (1) , Elisaveta Gurova (1)

1 CIST - Centre of Information Society Technologies

The knowledge management (KM) literature emphasizes the impact of human factors forsuccessful implementation of KM within the organization. Isolated initiatives for promoting learning organization and team collaboration, without taking consideration of the knowledge sharing limitations and constraints can defeat further development of KM culture. As an effective instrument for knowledge sharing, communities of practice (CoP) are appearing to overcome these constraints and to foster human collaboration

Keywords: knowledge sharing; learning organizations

Domains: Technology for Human Learning

Albena Antonova, Elisaveta Gurova. A note on organizational learning and knowledge sharing in the context of communities of practice. TENCompetence Scientific Output 2006, Proceedings of the 2006 International Workshop on Learning Networks for Lifelong Competence Development. Sofia, Bulgaria: INCOMA Ltd, 2006, Sofia, Bulgaria. pp.23-30. ⟨hal-00190347⟩