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Organisational knowledge in the making: how firms create, use and institutionalize knowledge

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Oxford University Press 2004Description: x, 232 pISBN:
  • 9780199275243
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.4
Summary: This book deals with the processes by which organizations create, use, and retain knowledge on a day-to-day basis. It provides a critical review of the concepts, debates, and assumptions underpinning existing perspectives on organizational knowledge, and suggests a new vocabulary for understanding knowledge-oriented phenomena in organizations. The book invites scholars, managers, and practitioners to reflect upon the repertoire of knowledge they possess and yet cannot articulate. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/organizational-knowledge-in-the-making-9780199275243?cc=us&lang=en&#
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Part One: Epistemological Foundations
1. Introduction
2. Knowing and Organizing
3. Studying Organizational Knowledge
Part Two: Organizational Knowledge in Action
4. Tradition and Innovation at Fiat Auto
5. Knowledge-in-the-Making: The 'Construction' of Fiat Melfi's Factory
6. Breakdowns and Bottlenecks: Capturing the Learning Dynamics on the Assembly Line
7. Sense Making on the Shop Floor: The Narrative Dimension of Organizational Knowledge
Part Three: Building a Theory of Knowledge in Organizations
8. Action, Content, and Time: A Processual Model of Knowing and Organizing
9. Re-thinking Knowledge in Organizations

This book deals with the processes by which organizations create, use, and retain knowledge on a day-to-day basis. It provides a critical review of the concepts, debates, and assumptions underpinning existing perspectives on organizational knowledge, and suggests a new vocabulary for understanding knowledge-oriented phenomena in organizations. The book invites scholars, managers, and practitioners to reflect upon the repertoire of knowledge they possess and yet cannot articulate.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/organizational-knowledge-in-the-making-9780199275243?cc=us&lang=en&#

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