Communities of practice and their lifecycle strategy: systematic review from PRISMA guidelines
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Situated learning, organizational learning;, communities of practice, knowledge management.Abstract
Communities of practice (CoPs) are a mechanism for knowledge management that requires the development of a strategy, to meet its objectives. The objective of this study was to verify the characteristics of the CoPs and their strategies of dynamization in their different stages of the life cycle: creation, cohesion, maturity and stability, through an analysis of the evidence reported in the academic literature. The methodology was a systematic literature review under the PRISMA methodology, the databases consulted were: EBSCO (Academic Source, Business, Education), Scielo, Dialnet and Proquest. As a result, 23 cases were selected to demonstrate that the design should be incremental, supported by the knowledge of the members, from processes of located and experimental learning, starting from the individual goals of its membersto reach a consensus negotiation that benefits the organizations and communities that contain them. The strategy of a CoP should have as its reference the life cycle, which guides the diagnosis, the design of action plans and the evaluation to achieve the stabilization of the CoP for the advancement and competitive advantage from a practice
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