Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations: Learning and Knowledge Creation

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Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-03-29
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

This work demonstrates how the 'knowledge economy' can be seen in a new light when considered from a complexity perspective. It stresses the imporance of relationships as a source of - and influence on - information and knowledge creation.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
viii
Series preface ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction: can learning and knowledge creation in organizations really be managed?
1(10)
The historical context
3(1)
Moving on from systems thinking
4(3)
Outline of the book
7(4)
Part I The foundations of mainstream views on learning and knowledge creation in organizations: systems thinking 11(56)
Mainstream thinking about learning and knowledge creation in organizations
13(27)
Transmitting knowledge between individuals, diffusing it across an organization, and storing it in explicit forms
14(16)
Constructing knowledge and making sense in communities of practice
30(9)
Conclusion
39(1)
Different levels of learning and knowledge creation in organizations: the individual and the social
40(27)
The endless debate about priority and primacy
42(2)
The individual and the social as separate mutually influencing levels
44(17)
Moving away from the split between individual and social
61(3)
Conclusion
64(3)
Part II Toward a complexity perspective: the emergence of knowledge in complex responsive processes of relating 67(124)
The emergence of the individual and the social in communicative interaction
69(31)
Complex adaptive systems as a source domain for analogies of human acting and knowing
70(5)
The evolution of mind, self and society
75(17)
Back to the complexity sciences as source domain for analogies
92(6)
Conclusion
98(2)
Communicative action in the medium of symbols
100(17)
The importance of feelings
102(4)
The importance of reflection-in-action
106(2)
The importance of abstract thinking
108(3)
The multiple aspects of symbols

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