A community of action (CoA), unlike a community of practice, exists in a situation that is structurally more open, where actors have the possibility of bringing about change.

  • Community of circumstance
  • Community of inquiry
  • Community of interest
  • Community of position
  • Community of place
  • Community of practice
  • Community of purpose
  • Communities of action: a cognitive and social approach to the design of CSCW systems
  • Socio-Semantic Web applications: towards a methodology based on the Theory of the Communities of Action
  • Distributed Design Teams as Communities of Practice