Complex Responsive Processes in Organizations: Learning and Knowledge Creation Contributor(s): Stacey, Ralph (Author) |
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ISBN: 041524918X ISBN-13: 9780415249188 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $218.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2001 Annotation: 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Computers | Management Information Systems |
Dewey: 658.403 |
LCCN: 00045939 |
Series: Complexity and Emergence in Organizations |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.23 lbs) 270 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The past decade has seen increasing focus on the importance of information and knowledge in economic and social processes, the so-called 'knowledge economy'. This is reflected in the popularity amongst practicing managers and organizational theorists of notions of learning, sense-making, knowledge creation, knowledge management and intellectual capital in organizations and more recently, of emotional intelligence as an important management skill. This insightful book:
Learning and knowledge creation are seen as qualitative processes of power relating that are emotional as well as intellectual, creative as well as destructive, enabling as well as constraining, and the result is a radical questioning of the belief that organizational knowledge is essentially codified and centralized. Instead, organizational knowledge is understood to be in the relationships between people in an organization and has to do with the qualities of those relationships. |