Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an emergent conceptual framework for examining virtual communities … information sharing behaviours are explored with the goal of determining their usefulness in conceptualising virtual communities … virtual communities. This framework also acknowledges the affective contexts in which virtual communities operate. Practical …

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate how online communities of practice facilitate the embedding of personal …, interpretivist case research, using qualitative methods. Forty‐one individuals from five online communities in a national … literature on communities of practice by outlining the dynamics of a complex online community system. It provides an explanation …

school technology coordinators (STCs) rely in exchanging problem‐solving knowledge. Using prestige as an indicator of … characteristics of personal knowledge exchange in STC communities. Design/methodology/approach – The analytical model designed for … – Prestigious STCs engage more in contributing knowledge to online communities of related competency than to STCs at other schools …

meet and be together and share information. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether Second Life communities … environment for community building and collective action. However, communities and collective action within Second Life cannot be …