CONDITIONS AND CHALLENGES FOR THE RISE OF COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE IN ORGANIZATIONS

In carrying out a theoretical review into communities of practice we saw a certain weakness in the literature that assumes that these social structures arise spontaneously within the organizational context, regardless of the cultural, social relation and labor-law variables. Using this omission as its starting point this article aims to e,examine how communities of practice spring up within the organizational context. To achieve our research purpose we used the qualitative approach with a multiple case-study as our methodology strategy. We saw of practice in the cases we studied. We noticed that them are certain elements that inhibit the generation of fertile conditions for the development the notion of the "organizational culture of social practice learning" in order to better understand of these communities, the creation of the conditions necessatyfor the appearance of communities of practice.