One has to feel safe in order to work at higher levels than base drives and survival ( Maslow's Hierarchy of need). Most of us take some time to assess a community, particularly the safety, trust and ethical standard, before forming relationships and joining a community. Some communities have implied codes of ethics, eg schools, police, hospitals, other s make their code of ethics and code of conduct explicit ( University of Western Australia).
Some organisations use a code of ethics to protect themselves too. ( eg relationships with the media, the public, use of company property for personal use, working outside the enterprise, secrecy, confidentiality and accepting bribes).
Codes of ethics and conduct are mandatory for publication of research. Such codes may also be advisable in a CoP, particularly as research is an important factor in obtaining knowledge.
A code of ethics or conduct may define boundaries to a CoP where there may be no boundaries, fluid boundaries or may serve to enforce boundaries in prescribed groups.
University of Western Australia, (2007) Code of ethics Retrieved 23/12/2007
http://www.hr.uwa.edu.au/publications/code_of_ethics
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