Organizational Knowledge: The Texture of Workplace Learning (Organization and Strategy) [Hardcover]

Silvia Gherardi (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1405125594 | ISBN-13: 978-1405125598 | Publication Date: January 17, 2006 | Edition: 1

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This is not only an insightful but also a necessary book. It draws together the practice-based school of thought within research on organizational and workplace learning. And, furthermore, the book takes us in an exemplary way through a case study in which the novel term "texture of practice" is used to illustrate how practice is weaved together with the workplace and its members. I will not hesitate to recommend this book to any of my students - and even my friends!"Bente Elkjaer, The Danish University of Education

Review

"This is not only an insightful but also a necessary book. It draws together the practice-based school of thought within research on organizational and workplace learning. And, furthermore, the book takes us in an exemplary way through a case study in which the novel term "texture of practice" is used to illustrate how practice is weaved together with the workplace and its members. I will not hesitate to recommend this book to any of my students – and even my friends!"
—Bente Elkjaer, The Danish University of Education

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (January 17, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1405125594
• ISBN-13: 978-1405125598
• Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1 x 9.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,476,522 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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