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Organizational Knowledge

The Texture of Workplace Learning

Silvia Gherardi author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:16th Dec '05

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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.

"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

ISBN: 9781405125598

Dimensions: 236mm x 159mm x 25mm

Weight: 649g

292 pages