Papers
(See CV for full bibliographical list)

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Technology for communities
Etienne Wenger
Nancy White
John Smith
Kim Rowe
2005 This is a chapter written for the communities of practice guidebook produced by the CEFRIO research institute in Canada. It is a first product of our project to produce a new version of the technology survey I wrote in 2001 (see below). You can check our progress on our project blog. Download the paper from our blog
Learning for a small planet
a research agenda
Etienne Wenger 2004 Research agenda for the next decade Download from this website
Knowledge management is a donut
shaping your knowledge strategy through communities of practice
Etienne Wenger 2004 Ivey Business Journal, January-February Issue Download from Ivey
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Communities of practice in government
leveraging knowledge for performance
William Snyder
Etienne Wenger
Xavier de Sousa Briggs
2004 The Public Manager, Volume 32, Number 4, 
pp. 17-21
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Our world as a learning system
a community of practice approach
William Snyder
Etienne Wenger
2003 In Clawson, J. and Conner, M. (eds.) Creating a Learning Culture: Strategy, Practice, and Technology. New York: Cambridge University Press Request
Communities of practice in government
the case for sponsorship
William Snyder
Etienne Wenger
2003 Report to the CIO Council of the US Federal Government Download from this website
Leveraging group knowledge for high-performance decision-making Nathaniel Foote Eric Matson
Leigh Weiss
Etienne Wenger
2002 Organizational Dynamics, Volume 31, No. 3. Request
Communities of practice Etienne Wenger 2002  Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Volume 1.5, Article 5. Elsevier Science, Amsterdam. Request
Supporting communities of practice 
a survey of community-oriented technologies
Etienne Wenger 2001  Report to the Council of CIOs of the US Federal Government Download from this website
Communities of practice and learning systems Etienne Wenger 2000 Organization. Volume 7, Number 2, pp. 225-246. Request
Communities of practice
the organizational frontier
Etienne Wenger
William Snyder
2000 Harvard Business Review. January-February, pp. 139-145. Request
Communities of practice
stewarding knowledge
Etienne Wenger  2000 In Despres, C. and Chauvel, D. (eds.) Knowledge Horizons: the Present and the Promise of Knowledge Management, pp. 205-225. Butterworth-Heinemann, Boston. Request
Communities of practice
the key to a knowledge strategy
 Etienne Wenger 1999  Knowledge Directions, Volume 1, Number 2, pp. 48-63. 
Reprinted in Lesser, E., Fontaine, M., and Slusher, J. (2000) Knowledge and Communities. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann.
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Communities of practice
learning as a social system
Etienne Wenger 1998 The Systems Thinker, Vol. 9, No. 5. Download (Word file)
Communities of practice 
the social fabric of the learning organization
Etienne Wenger  1996 HealthCare Forum Journal, July/August, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 20-26 Open here
Transition from school to work 
an apprenticeship in institutional identity
Penelope Eckert
Etienne Wenger
 1994 Learning and Identity Series, Institute for Research on Learning, Palo Alto, California Download
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Communities of practice 
where learning takes place
Etienne Wenger  1991 Benchmark Magazine, Fall Issue Download (Word file)