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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777811303321

Autore

Tsoukas Haridimos

Titolo

Complex knowledge [[electronic resource] ] : studies in organizational epistemology / / Haridimos Tsoukas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-383-04184-9

0-19-103695-1

1-280-90578-6

0-19-153460-9

1-4294-7082-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (427 p.)

Disciplina

658.4/028

Soggetti

Organizational learning

Knowledge management

Organizational change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Introduction: Professor Bleent, the Floon Beetle, and Organizational Epistemology; I. TOWARDS A KNOWLEDGE-BASED VIEW OF ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS; 1. The Tyranny of Light: The Temptations and the Paradoxes of the Information Society; 2. David and Goliath in the Risk Society: Making Sense of the Conflict between Shell and Greenpeace in the North Sea; 3. Forms of Knowledge and Forms of Life in Organized Contexts; 4. The Firm as a Distributed Knowledge System: A Constructionist Approach; 5. What is Organizational Knowledge?

6. Do We Really Understand Tacit Knowledge?II. ORGANIZATION AS CHAOSMOS: COPING WITH ORGANIZATIONAL COMPLEXITY; 7. Understanding Social Reforms: A Conceptual Analysis; 8. On Organizational Becoming: Rethinking Organizational Change; 9. Chaos, Complexity, and Organization Theory; 10. Complex Thinking, Complex Practice: The Case for a Narrative Approach to Organizational Complexity; 11. What is Organizational Foresight and How can it be Developed?; 12. Noisy Organizations: Uncertainty, Complexity,



Narrativity; III. META-KNOWLEDGE: TOWARDS A COMPLEX EPISTEMOLOGY OF MANAGEMENT RESEARCH

13. Refining Common sense: Types of Knowledge in Management Studies14. The Practice of Theory: A Knowledge-based View of Theory Development in Organization Studies; 15. The Conduct of Strategy Research: Meta-theoretical Issues; 16. New Times, Fresh Challenges: Reflections on the Past and the Future of Organization Theory; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

"In this book Haridimos Tsoukas examines the nature of knowledge in organizations, and how individuals and scholars approach the concept of knowledge"--Provided by publisher.