Innovation

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Communities of Practice Bibliography books and articles on theory, practice, examples, and so on

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• Seely Brown, J. (2002). "Chapter 17: Complexity and innovation " in M. Lissack and J. Rivkin (eds.), **The interaction of complexity and management** (Westport: Quorum Books, ISBN 1-56720-427-9)

"Communities are critical sites of invention. The practice-driven, collective trust and coordination they are characterized by in turn create social capital among the participants. But these strong internal bonds, although engines of invention, can simultaneously generate distrust of those outside. Increasing local social capital can generate disdain for other, more distal groups. Indeed, social capital may actually help ideas flow more readily out of a firm than across it, along the networks of social capital created among people engaged in similar tasks in different firms…" pp. 145-154.

• Susanne Justesen, "Navigating the paradoxes of diversity in innovation practice: “A longitudinal study of six very different innovation processes - in practice” (unpublished PhD dissertation)