In this article, Wegner disputes the fact that organizations are successful when they organize themselves as social learning structure and they participate in broader learning systems. It invites people to think of learning from a social perspective. It then discusses three ways to participate in social learning systems. It then discusses the foundation of social learning systems.
http://itu.dk/people/petermeldgaard/B12/lektion%207/Communities%20of%20Practice_The%20Organizational%20Frontier.pdf