%0 Journal Article
%T Communities of Practice: Performance and Evolution
%A Bernardo A. Huberman
%A Tad Hogg
%J Physics
%D 1994
%I arXiv
%X We present a detailed model of collaboration in communities of practice and we examine its dynamical consequences for the group as a whole. We establish the existence of a novel mechanism that allows the community to naturally adapt to growth, specialization, or changes in the environment without the need for central controls. This mechanism relies on the appearance of a dynamical instability that initates an exploration of novel interactions, eventually leading to higher performance for the community as a whole.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/adap-org/9410006v2