Overview

This book explores the relationship among knowing, learning, and practice in the development of organizational knowledge. Scholars and practitioners from the U.S. and abroad focus on organizational learning as a collective, social, and not entirely cognitive activity. These experts represent a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds (including management, IT/collaborative technology, sociology, psychology, and political science) and research traditions (symbolic interaction, activity theory, and actor network theory). They explore the implications for research and intervention growing out of the notion that organizational knowledge cannot be conceived as a mental process residing in members' heads, but rather as a form of social expertise, in which learning is situated in the historical, social, and cultural contexts in which it takes place. Their work provides a fresh, authoritative, and challenging look at the changing field of organizational learning that will be equally useful in any advanced level course in which knowledge management is a central concern.

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Author:   Davide Nicolini ,  Silvia Gherardi ,  Dvora Yanow
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780765609106

ISBN 10:   076560910
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   30 June 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Toward a Practice-Based View of Knowing and Learning in Organizations, Davide Nicolini, Silvia Gherardi, Dvora Yanow; Chapter 2 Seeing Organizational Learning: A “Cultural” View, Dvora Yanow; Chapter 3 Knowing in Practice: Aesthetic Understanding and Tacit Knowledge, Antonio Strati; Chapter 4 Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems, Etienne Wenger; Chapter 5 Developing Knowing in Practice: Behind the Scenes of Haute Cuisine, Marie-Léandre Gomez, Isabelle Bouty, Carole Drucker-Godard; Chapter 6 Organizing Processes in Complex Activity Networks, Frank Blackler, Norman Crump, Seonaidh McDonald; Chapter 7 Spatial and Temporal Expansion of the Object as a Challenge for Reorganizing Work, Yrjö Engeström, Anne Puonti, Laura Seppänen; Chapter 8 Organizing Alignment: The Case of Bridge-Building, Lucy Suchman; Chapter 9 To Transfer Is to Transform: The Circulation of Safety Knowledge, Silvia Gherardi, Davide Nicolini; Chapter 10 Allegory and Its Others, John Law, Vicky Singleton;

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