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This paper looks at an area where KM does not offer sufficient support, that is, the sharing of knowledge that is not easy to articulate. The focus in this paper is on communities of practice in commercial organisations. We do this by exploring knowledge sharing in Lave and Wenger\u2019s (1991) theory of communities of practice and investigating how communities of practice may translate to a distributed international environment. 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