TY  - JOUR
T1  - Proposing a Model to Create Value in Organizations Through
Forming and Establishing Communities of Practice (COP)
AU - Sharif, Fahimeh AU - Bayat, Morteza AU - Shavvalpur, Saeid 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 5
SP  - 1085
EP  - 1091
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2017.1085.1091
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2017.1085.1091
KW  - community of practice
KW  -structural model
KW  -knowledge management
KW  -Knowledge
KW  -CoP
AB  - A big number of organizations including profiting and non-profiting, profit and mission-driven have
figured out that knowledge is their major capital and asset. Hence, they look at knowledge management as a
main factor in achieving success in long-term based on their major perspectives and strategies. Similar to any
other systems, knowledge management also needs some methods to be implemented and executed. The
methods of knowledge management are combinations of human-driven approaches emphasizing on human and
technology-driven resources relying on information technology. Communities of Practice (CoP) is used as one
of human-driven approaches in order to promote and stabilize knowledge in knowledge-driven organizations.
The main aim of this study is designing a model to increase expected values of organizations through forming
and establishing Communities of Practice (CoP) as a human-driven approach emphasizing on human resources.
Due to this aim, descriptive-analytical study method was used. As the first step, 26 effective independent
variables on forming and establishing CoP were identified through studying and investigating theoretical texts.
As the second step, the rate of importance for these variables were determined through providing a structured
questionnaire by organizational elites of various business domains who were selected through target purposive
sampling. Descriptive levels including testing structural model and independent sample t-test and hypotheses
were analyzed using SPSS and AMOS Software. The obtained results show that leadership is the most
important factor in organization for forming CoP and CoP is also effective on knowledge management
procedures and directly affects value creation in organizations that means after improving knowledge
management procedures.
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