Cover -- CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- Guest editorial -- Japan's learning communities in Hewlett-Packard Consulting and Integration -- Consultants: love-hate relationships with communities of practice -- Managing intentionally created communities of practice for knowledge sourcing across organisational boundaries -- Emergent communities of practice in temporary inter-organisational partnerships -- Scratching beneath the surface of communities of (mal)practice -- Developing communities of innovation by identifying innovation champions -- Note from the publisher.