Internet technology in support of the concept of "communities-of-practice": The case of xerox

Accounting, Management and Information Technologies

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 227-236

  Brown, John Seely ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Communities of practice; Ethnography; Innovation; Legitimate peripheral participation (LPP); Work practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043239385     PISSN: 09598022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8022(98)00011-3     Document Type: Article

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