Radical change in learning and Identity problems: The Introduction of MNoPs in a large Distributed Public Organization

In this paper, I discuss recent experiences of the implementation of what we label as Managed Networks of Practice (MNoPs). Using an in-practice perspective, I describe and discuss how initially positive identity as experienced employee, an `oldtimer` , are sometimes reconstructed into negative identities during learning situated in the context of a designed and formally arranged Network of Practice (NoP). We describe the closure of a learning identity, where the experienced `old-timer` willing to share while conducting inspections and learn from experts, are not able to this situated in a managed Network of Practice context.