External Communities of Practice and Relational Capital

Item request has been placed! ×
Item request cannot be made. ×
loading   Processing Request
Read More Add to Saved list
  • Additional Information
    • Availability:
      Emerald. 875 Massachusetts Avenue 7th Floor, Cambridge, MA 02139. Tel: 888-622-0075; Fax: 617-354-6875; e-mail: [email protected]; Web site: http://www.emeraldinsight.com
    • Peer Reviewed:
      Y
    • Source:
      10
    • Education Level:
      Adult Education
    • Subject Terms:
      Foreign Countries; Learning; Shared Resources and Services; Small Businesses; Communities of Practice; Social Capital; Optometry; Business; Structural Equation Models; Factor Analysis
    • Subject Terms:
      Spain
    • Accession Number:
      10.1108/09696470410538224
    • ISSN:
      0969-6474
    • Abstract:
      External communities of practice are groups formed by company clients and employees based on common interests, commitment, mutual trust and collaboration whose members regularly share knowledge and learning. This paper examines how external communities of practice contribute to the creation of relational capital through an empirical investigation of 139 small to medium-sized enterprises in the Spanish optometry sector using structural equation modelling validated by factor analysis.
    • Abstract:
      As Provided
    • Publication Date:
      2010
    • Accession Number:
      EJ873216