Organizational Knowledge
The Texture of Workplace Learning
Organization and Strategy
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.
Introduction.
Chapter 1 From Organizational Learning to Knowing in
Practice.
Chapter 2 The Texture of Knowing in Practice.
Chapter 3.On Becoming a Practitioner.
Chapter 4.Knowing in a Community of Practitioners.
Chapter 5 Knowing across Communities.
Chapter 6 Knowing Within an Organization While Mending the
Texture of Practices.
Chapter 7 Knowing Within a Field of Practices.
Chapter 8 The Mutual Constitution of Practice and Practicing,
Knowledge and Knowing.
References.
Index
Chapter 1 From Organizational Learning to Knowing in
Practice.
Chapter 2 The Texture of Knowing in Practice.
Chapter 3.On Becoming a Practitioner.
Chapter 4.Knowing in a Community of Practitioners.
Chapter 5 Knowing across Communities.
Chapter 6 Knowing Within an Organization While Mending the
Texture of Practices.
Chapter 7 Knowing Within a Field of Practices.
Chapter 8 The Mutual Constitution of Practice and Practicing,
Knowledge and Knowing.
References.
Index
"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
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
Silvia Gherardi is Professor of Organization and Management at the University of Trento, Italy.