Organizational knowledge : the texture of workplace learning

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Title:

Author:

Gherardi, Silvia.

ISBN:

9781405125598

Personal Author:

Gherardi, Silvia.

Publication Information:

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Organization and strategy

Series Title:

Organization and strategy

Contents:

From organizational learning to knowing in practice -- The texture of knowing in practice -- On becoming a practitioner -- Knowing in a community of practitioners -- Knowing across communities -- Knowing within an organization while mending its texture -- Knowing within a field of practices -- The mutual constitution of practice and practising.

Subject Term:

Organizational learning.

Knowledge management.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0513/2005014987.html

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Summary

This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of practice-based organizational learning and knowing. Based on the author's detailed study of safety practices in different corporate settings. The author uses this study to empirically describe how learning, knowing and organizing are practised. Centred on the concepts of "knowing in practice" and the "texture" of organizational knowledge. Gives a rich account of how organizations learn and how corporate practices and policies evolve.