Managing intentionally created communities of practice for knowledge sourcing across organisational boundaries Insights on the role of the CoP manager

Learning Organization

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 34-49

  Thomas, Garavan N ^a   Carbery, Ronan Carbery ^a   Murphy, Eamonn Murphy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Communities; Ireland; Knowledge sharing; Managers; Strategic management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845678065     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470710718339     Document Type: Article

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