The paper discusses some of the main contributions to the theory of communities of practice (COP theory), especially as it relates to organizational learning. The paper does not attempt a full overview but concentrates on the notion of power relations. Early COP theory, was formulated as part of situated learning theory, and promised to work on issues of social context and unequal power relatio...

This research leverages information retrieval activity in order to build a network of organizational expertise in a distributed R&D laboratory. The authors describe traditional knowledge management practices and review post-cognitivists theories in order to define social creation in collaborative information retrieval activity. The Actor-Network theory accurately describes association processes...

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 As one of the oldest cities in Indonesia, Palembang has a history related to Musi river. The River divides city into Ilir and Ulu. This river was known as trade route ancient times, so that many Chinese Arab immigrants settled on riverbank. In Ulu, there are several village areas mostly inhabited by residents, which is Assegaf Village. study will specifically discuss village, esp...

Global warming alters the Arctic on different ecological and social levels, including rising resource availabilities and shifting power relations. In this geographical area, the natural sphere, which is based on the geographical spheres of the earth, and the social sphere are strongly interwoven and therefore sensitive to even small alterations, as a case study of Arctic shipping routes will hi...

The high degree of fragmentation and unsustainable exploitation patterns forest resources have become prominent obstacles to the realisation economic social value China’s resources. eco-bank (FEB) project was set up achieve centralised utilisation diffuse in an underdeveloped area. Analysing FEB projects is great significance countries with abundant aiming benefit from ecological functions such...

Actor-Network-Theory (ANT) is currently under discussion in Science and Technology Studies because it is reconstructing how social should be seen by social scientists. In the core of ANT is the concept of translation underlining how actors constantly engage in a process to translate their languages, their problems, their identities and their interests into the others. Understanding the social a...