Authors: Haridimos Tsoukas
ISBN-13: 9780199275571, ISBN-10: 0199275572
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: January 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Haridimos Tsoukas is the George D. Mavros Research Professor of Organization and Management at ALBA in Greece, and Professor of Organization Theory and Behaviour at the University of Strathclyde Graduate School of Business, UK. Previous positions held include Lecturer at Warwick Business School (1990-5), and Associate Professor at the University of Cyprus.
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 epistemology | 1 | |
1 | The tyranny of light : the temptations and the paradoxes of the information society | 13 |
2 | David and Goliath in the risk society : making sense of the conflict between Shell and Greenpeace in the North Sea | 39 |
3 | Forms of knowledge and forms of life in organized contexts | 69 |
4 | The firm as a distributed knowledge system : a constructionist approach | 94 |
5 | What is organizational knowledge? | 117 |
6 | Do we really understand tacit knowledge? | 141 |
7 | Understanding social reforms : a conceptual analysis | 165 |
8 | On organizational becoming : rethinking organizational change | 181 |
9 | Chaos, complexity, and organization theory | 210 |
10 | Complex thinking, complex practice : the case for a narrative approach to organizational complexity | 230 |
11 | What is organizational foresight and how can it be developed? | 263 |
12 | Noisy organizations : uncertainty, complexity, narrativity | 280 |
13 | Refining common sense : types of knowledge in management studies | 299 |
14 | The practice of theory : a knowledge-based view of theory development in organization studies | 321 |
15 | The conduct of strategy research : meta-theoretical issues | 340 |
16 | New times, fresh challenges : reflections on the past and the future of organization theory | 378 |