The Network Structure of Community of Practice and Knowledge Sharing Performance

Community of practice (COP) is an important informal learning style in companies. This paper analyzes the moderating effect of COP’s identity and COP’s competition on the relationship between network structure of COP and knowledge sharing performance. The empirical analysis illustrates that the relationship between the COP’s relation strength and knowledge sharing performance is fully mediated by COP’s identity and COP’s competition, and the relationship between the COP’s status disparity and knowledge sharing performance is partly mediated by COP’s identity and COP’s competition.