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Organizational Knowledge: The Texture of Workplace Learning
Silvia Gherardi
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Description for Organizational Knowledge: The Texture of Workplace Learning
Hardcover. * 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. Series: Organization and Strategy. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: KJMV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 586.
This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of practice-based organizational learning and knowing.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Organization and Strategy
Number of Pages
292
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405125598
SKU
V9781405125598
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50
About Silvia Gherardi
Silvia Gherardi is Professor of Organization and Management at the University of Trento, Italy.
Reviews for Organizational Knowledge: The Texture of Workplace Learning
"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 ... Read more