Research has focused on formal and informal groups playing a significant role in organisational knowledge sharing. The concept of the Community of Practice (CoP) has emerged as one such form and has attracted the attention of researchers. This paper reports the initial stages of an ongoing study of an emerging CoP. Specifically, we report the initial stage of a longer-term action research study...

This paper addresses how power and politics influence learning, knowledge and innovation, investigating the power of changing knowledge domains, which is not sufficiently investigated. Our data was conducted in a Bank Alliance (TBA) implementing a new knowledge vision, involving both productand process innovation. We find that finance advisers ́ lack of sensemaking of their new role as sellers i...

This case study considers the substantial reforms to the South African public expenditure management system undertaken since the mid-1990s. The key aspects of the reform process have been: establishing the institutional framework for budget reforms through the “new” Constitution and further national legislation and practice; adopting a multi-year budget framework and top-down budget process; de...

There are two main possible approaches for the construction of a risk mapping. The first one consists to identify the risks of the company, and the second is based on a census of risks by the Executive Committee. These two approaches are complementary. In the top-down approach, the major risks are identified by the members of the Executive Committee, with regard to the strategy followed by the ...