Complex Knowledge: Studies in Organizational Epistemology
"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.
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Tsoukas (organizational studies, U. of Warwick, UK) presents a collection of previously-published essays and conference presentations which he wrote or co-authored during the past decade. The text employs Gregory Bateson's view of epistemology to examine the notion of organizational knowledge. Coverage includes the different forms of organizational knowledge and the forms of life in which they are embedded; the nature of tacit knowledge; the limitations of a purely information-based understanding of knowledge; the implications for organizations when the latter are seen as makers of knowledge claims put forward for public adoption; the problems of a Cartesian understanding of knowledge; aspects of organizational complexity; and meta-theoretical issues in organizational and management research. For academics, researchers, and students of knowledge management, organization studies, management studies, strategic management, and applied epistemology. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Introduction : Professor Bleent, the Floon Beetle, and organizational epistemology11The tyranny of light : the temptations and the paradoxes of the information society132David and Goliath in the risk society : making sense of the conflict between Shell and Greenpeace in the North Sea393Forms of knowledge and forms of life in organized contexts694The firm as a distributed knowledge system : a constructionist approach945What is organizational knowledge?1176Do we really understand tacit knowledge?1417Understanding social reforms : a conceptual analysis1658On organizational becoming : rethinking organizational change1819Chaos, complexity, and organization theory21010Complex thinking, complex practice : the case for a narrative approach to organizational complexity23011What is organizational foresight and how can it be developed?26312Noisy organizations : uncertainty, complexity, narrativity28013Refining common sense : types of knowledge in management studies29914The practice of theory : a knowledge-based view of theory development in organization studies32115The conduct of strategy research : meta-theoretical issues34016New times, fresh challenges : reflections on the past and the future of organization theory378
