03685nam 22006854a 450 991077781130332120231206224619.01-383-04184-90-19-103695-11-280-90578-60-19-153460-91-4294-7082-8(CKB)1000000000473554(EBL)422951(OCoLC)476260703(SSID)ssj0000127236(PQKBManifestationID)11143120(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000127236(PQKBWorkID)10052265(PQKB)10120373(Au-PeEL)EBL422951(CaPaEBR)ebr10254359(CaONFJC)MIL90578(Au-PeEL)EBL1678699(OCoLC)253008587(Au-PeEL)EBL7036215(MiAaPQ)EBC422951(EXLCZ)99100000000047355420041014d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrComplex knowledge[electronic resource] studies in organizational epistemology /Haridimos TsoukasNew York Oxford University Press20051 online resource (427 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-927557-2 0-19-927558-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 RESEARCH13. 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"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.Organizational learningKnowledge managementOrganizational changeOrganizational learning.Knowledge management.Organizational change.658.4/028Tsoukas Haridimos291997MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777811303321Complex knowledge757335UNINA