Knowing in action: Beyond communities of practice

Amin, Ash; Roberts, Joanne

doi:10.1016/j.respol.2007.11.003

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“…This is consistent with narrative accounts which suggest that networks can be dynamic and impermanent (Amin & Roberts, 2008;Araujo, 1998), but is not consistent with leading network governance theories (Bouckaert, Peters andVerhoest 2010, Sorenson andTorfing 2007). The latter are either silent on the question of the actors, or assume that negotiations take place over time between actors of networks, implying at least a measure of stability of network membership.…”

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Using the structure of social networks to map inter-agency relationships in public health services

West

House

Keen

et al. 2015

Social Science & Medicine

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Using the structure of social networks to map inter-agency relationships in public health services

West

House

Keen

et al. 2015

Social Science & Medicine

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“…For instance, some authors [34,1] highlight the connection of virtual communities with the social learning theory and communities of practice developed by Wenger [46], while others are focused on their relation with knowledge sharing [24], knowledge creation [26] and innovation models [45]. Another important block of works are devoted to motivation of people participating in online communities [6], the analysis social interactions [39] and participation mechanisms [38,42,43], and practical applications to successful online communities [44].…”

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Analysis of virtual communities supporting OSS projects using social network analysis

Toral

Torres

Barrero

2010

Information and Software Technology

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a b s t r a c tThis paper analyses the behaviour of virtual communities for Open Source Software (OSS) projects. The development of OSS projects relies on virtual communities, which are built on relationships among members, being their final objective sharing knowledge and improving the underlying project. This study addresses the interactive collaboration in these kinds of communities applying social network analysis (SNA). In particular, SNA techniques will be used to identify those members playing a middle-man role among other community members. Results will illustrate the importance of this role to achieve successful virtual communities.

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“…A CoP can be viewed as a "small" social learning system where systemic relationships are embedded within three kinds of community characteristic (see Figure 1 below; Wenger 1998). These characteristics emerge from the social learning embedded within the interactions and these, in turn, produce a systemic output (the "knowledge in action", Amin and Roberts 2008). The first of these characteristics is joint enterprise, which refers to a common purpose that binds community members together and provides them with (a) unified goal(s) to take action.…”

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The G1000 Firework Dialogue as a Social Learning System: A Community of Practice Approach

Eckardt

Benneworth

2018

Social Sciences

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Abstract:New public governance studies have increasingly sought to highlight the importance of citizen engagement in local decision-making processes as a way to identify suitable approaches to matters of public concern. There is a particular absence of good theoretical development building upon empirical work exploring citizen participatory processes as potential sites for social learning. In this paper, we asked the overall research question of the extent to which a new citizen participation process can be designed as a social learning system to facilitate the integration of citizen types of interests and knowledge in local decision-making. To answer this question, the study's results provided deeper insights into the internal social learning dynamics within one particular deliberately designed collective local decision-making process, the G1000 firework dialogue in Enschede, The Netherlands. Using Wenger's concept of "communities of practice" (CoP) as a baseline for analysis, the results of this study indicated that the G1000 firework dialogue process encouraged the creation of activities that may be considered to correspond to the different structural dimensions of CoP and that new design-based models of citizen participation would benefit from adopting a more explicit incorporation of and orientation towards social learning practices and theories. Consequently, we argue that local governance should invest more in citizen participation processes that encourage and enable learning among different societal stakeholders with different interests through constructive dialogues over political matters.

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Knowing in action: Beyond communities of practice

Cited by 618 publications

References 62 publications

Using the structure of social networks to map inter-agency relationships in public health services

Using the structure of social networks to map inter-agency relationships in public health services

Analysis of virtual communities supporting OSS projects using social network analysis

The G1000 Firework Dialogue as a Social Learning System: A Community of Practice Approach

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