Knowledge-based communities are important but poorly understood systems for helping enterprises maintain their organizational integrity and address organizational imperatives. Based on an autopoietic theory of organization, we examine the emergence and development of knowledge-based communities...

Although readers of this journal are familiar with work-based learning and with leadership, they may not have entertained the link between them. The paper contends that the link is that the former changes the latter. The authentic practice of work-based learning produces a more collective form...

A comprehensive model of work-based learning is illustrated combining explicit and tacit forms of knowledge and theory and practice modes of learning at both individual and collective levels. The model is designed to bring together epistemic contributions which are typically studied in...

Given the need to unlock the capacity of everyone in the organization, interest in collaborative leadership is growing. But how is such a practice developed? The author proposes the use of action learning-in its original formulation, namely, through reflection on real-time work experience...

Knowledge management theory has struggled with the concept of knowledge creation. Since the seminal article of Nonaka in 1991, an industry has grown up seeking to capture the knowledge in the heads and hearts of individuals so as to leverage them for organizational learning and growth. But the...

The firm is the central actor for the effectuation of innovation and technological change. The large industrial laboratories of the previous century have given way to more organizationally and geographically diffuse sources of technology, placing even greater emphasis on the coordination skills...