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

• Autore: Tsoukas Haridimos
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (427 p.)
• Disciplina: 658.4/028
• Soggetto topico: Organizational learning; Knowledge management; Organizational change
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Complex knowledge
• ISBN: 1-280-90578-6; 0-19-153460-9; 1-4294-7082-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910451382203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II