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The fractal structure of communities of practice: Implications for business organization
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Communities of practice (COP) are informal (sometimes formal) groupings of professionals with shared interests that form to facilitate the exchange of expertise and shared learning or to function as professional support networks. We analyse a dataset on the size of COPs and show that their distribution has a fractal structure similar to that found in huntergatherer social organisation and the structure of human personal social networks. Small communities up to about 40 in size can be managed ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS ONE Journal website
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 4
- Article number:
- e0232204
- Publication date:
- 2020-04-29
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-04-05
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1932-6203
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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1103350
- Local pid:
- pubs:1103350
- Deposit date:
- 2020-05-07
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- Copyright holder:
- Webber and Dunbar
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © 2020 Webber, Dunbar. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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