Organizational Knowledge
The Texture of Workplace Learning
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-4051-2560-4 (ISBN)
Description
Why has the issue of learning and knowledge in organizations been the subject of such lively debate over the last 20 years? This book furnishes an answer to this question, supported with arguments, and founded on data and examples from empirical research. The author uses her detailed study of safety practices in different corporate settings to ground her theories of organizational learning. She shows how safety can be interpreted as an organizational practice and, using this example, she empirically describes how learning, knowing and organizing are practised. Her account centres on the transformative concepts of "knowing in practice" and the "texture" of organizational learning. This book gives readers a rich account on how organizations learn and how corporate practices and policies evolve, and in this way makes an important contribution to our understanding of organizational knowledge.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Illustrations
12
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-2560-4 (9781405125604)
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Content
Introduction Chapter 1 From Organizational Learning to Knowing in Practice1.1 Conventional Wisdom1.2 The Institutionalization of the Field: The Birth of the Learning Organization1.3 Organizational Learning and Learning Organization as a Disciplinary Discourse1.4 The Reification of Knowledge in Knowledge Management Literature1.5 Knowing in Practice: Neither in the Head Nor as a Commodity1.6 The Philosophical Roots of the Concept of Practice1.7 The Sociological Roots of the Concept of Practice1.8 What is a Practice?1.9 To Sum Up: Two Narratives of Learning and Knowing Chapter 2 The Texture of Knowing in Practice2.1 Texture as Connectedness in Action2.2 A Methodological Framework: The Spiral Case-Study2.3 The Power of Associations2.4 To Sum Up: Weaving the Texture of Situated Practices Chapter 3.On Becoming a Practitioner3.1 Being 'On Site'3.2 Safety and Silence of the Organization: The Culture of Practice3.3 The Knowledge Pointers3.4 Knowing as Aesthetic Understanding3.5 Conversation in Practice and Conversation on Practice3.6 Knowledge Mediated By Social Relations, Artifacts, and Norms3.7 How 'You Learn Nothing at School!'3.8 To Sum Up: Becoming a Practitioner Chapter 4.Knowing in a Community of Practitioners4.1 Community of Practice or the Practices of a Community?4.2 The Notion of Situated Curriculum4.3 Gaining Access to a Situated Curriculum4.4 How Power Relations Shape Opportunities to Learn4.5 Practicing, Teaching and Talking of It4.6 To Sum Up: The Incorporated 'Known' and the Enacted 'Knowing' Chapter 5 Knowing across Communities5.1 Practices of Accountability5.2. Mirror Games5.3 Positioning: The Discursive Production of Subjectivity5.4 Doing Things with Words5.5 To Sum Up: Practices Which Perform Communities Chapter 6 Knowing Within an Organization While Mending the Texture of Practices6.1. Breakdowns in a Texture6.2 Darning: The Art of Invisible Mending6.3 Patching: The Art of Remedial Mending6.4 Quilting: The Art of Signalling6.5 Mending the Texture and Translating Knowledge6.6 To Sum Up: Between the Visible and the Invisible Chapter 7 Knowing Within a Field of Practices7.1 Networks as Distributed and Fragmented Knowledge7.2 La Sicurezza Come Sorveglianza E Punizione7.3 La Sicurezza Come Tecnologie E Artefatti Sicuri7.4 La Sicurezza Come Formazione E Consulenza7.5 To Sum Up: The Woofs and Warps of a Seamless Web Chapter 8 The Mutual Constitution of Practice and Practicing, Knowledge and Knowing8.1 Material - Discursive Practices8.2 Knowing in Practice8.3 A Theoretical and Methodological Framework ReferencesIndex