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Preserving Knowledge Through Community of Practice: A Multiple Case Study

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From Information to Smart Society

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Knowledge Preservation (KP) is a crucial activity because provides individuals and organizations the basis for creating new knowledge and technical skills. Although some scholars have investigated KP within Community of Practice (CoP), less emphasis has been given to the process of KP as well as to the different ways. Thus, this study was aimed to investigate the KP within CoP. Based on case study method, it provides evidence on different ways and techniques by which tacit and explicit knowledge is preserved within two CoP.

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  1. Department of Management and Economics, Parthenope University, Naples, Italy

    Rocco Agrifoglio

  2. Department of Science and Technology Studies, Parthenope University, Naples, Italy

    Concetta Metallo

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  1. Department of Business Administration, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

    Lapo Mola

  2. Department of Management and Technology, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

    Ferdinando Pennarola

  3. CeRSI Research Center in Information Systems, LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy

    Stefano Za

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Agrifoglio, R., Metallo, C. (2015). Preserving Knowledge Through Community of Practice: A Multiple Case Study. In: Mola, L., Pennarola, F., Za, S. (eds) From Information to Smart Society. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09450-2_9

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