Tra comunità e pratica

This article describes the trajectories of the concept of "community of practice" inside organizational studies. The reasons to account for the appeal of this notion and the different understandings of the concept has been brought to the fore by following the "games of translations" within a plurality of theoretical perspectives. Three diverse trajectories are the focus of the analysis: the communitarian, the political, and the pragmatic footsteps that address different ways to descrive the locus of organizational learning and knowing as well as to consider the topic and question of community.