Communities of Practice: Performance and Evolution

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1994-10-26

arxiv.org/abs/adap-org/9410006v2

Nonlinear Sciences

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems

23 pages, postcript, uuencoded

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We present a detailed model of collaboration in communities of practice and we examine its dynamical consequences for the group as a whole. We establish the existence of a novel mechanism that allows the community to naturally adapt to growth, specialization, or changes in the environment without the need for central controls. This mechanism relies on the appearance of a dynamical instability that initates an exploration of novel interactions, eventually leading to higher performance for the community as a whole.

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