Organizational Knowledge The Texture of Workplace Learning [Hardcover]

• 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.

Chapter 1 From Organizational Learning to Knowing in Practice.

1.1 Conventional Wisdom.

1.2 The Institutionalization of the Field: The Birth of the Learning Organization.

1.3 Organizational Learning and Learning Organization as a Disciplinary Discourse.

1.4 The Reification of Knowledge in Knowledge Management Literature.

1.5 Knowing in Practice: Neither in the Head Nor as a Commodity.

1.6 The Philosophical Roots of the Concept of Practice.

1.7 The Sociological Roots of the Concept of Practice.

1.8 What is a Practice?.

1.9 To Sum Up: Two Narratives of Learning and Knowing.

Chapter 2 The Texture of Knowing in Practice.

2.1 Texture as Connectedness in Action.

2.2 A Methodological Framework: The Spiral Case-Study.

2.3 The Power of Associations.

2.4 To Sum Up: Weaving the Texture of Situated Practices.

Chapter 3.On Becoming a Practitioner.

3.1 Being 'On Site'.

3.2 Safety and Silence of the Organization: The Culture of Practice.

3.3 The Knowledge Pointers.&llÓ$