Product Details
- Pub. Date: January 2006
- Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
- Format:
Hardcover, 292pp
- Sales Rank:
521,314
Synopsis
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.
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Silvia Gherardi is Professor of Organization and Management at the University of Trento.