Using activity theory
experiences of organizational authorship
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Published on 28. June 2016
96 pages
978-1-78635-648-2 (ISBN)
Description
This e-book addresses the relationship between people and work organizations in uncertain and unstable situations in which organizational practitioners are required to deal with and manage complexity and change. Practitioners are asked to work and learn in globalizing contexts in which work processes, skills and conditions of employment are quickly shifting and often contingent or precarious. Competences of the actors are often judged on their ability to respond and manage events and issues that seem to be unusual and unsolvable on the basis of the existing knowledge. Becoming creative producers of knowledge and choices, capable of critically dialoguing with the past and the future, requires new instruments and forms of collaboration that mediate between the actors and the often unpredictable objects of their activity.
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- COVER
- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD
- Editorial
- Theorizing about practice: storytelling and practical knowledgein cancer diagnoses
- Carnivalization as a new modeof collaboration
- Work transformation followingthe implementation of anERP system
- The formation of germ cell fororganizational learning
- The dialectics of authoringexpansive learning: tracing thelong tail of a Change Laboratory
