abstract The purpose of this paper is to critically explore the communities of practice
approach to managing knowledge and its use among management academics and …

abstract Situated learning theory offers a radical critique of cognitivist theories of learning,
emphasizing the relational aspects of learning within communities of practice in contrast to …

The literatures on stakeholder engagement by companies and organizational learning give
little consideration to the power (or influence) of stakeholders to affect the process or content …

This paper1 establishes the importance of situatedness of experience in Information
Systems (IS) studies, but also critiques the limited notion of situatedness all too frequently …

This book has studied the political positioning of organization theory. Although the discourse
of positioning–that is, fixing, placing and locating–has, in the wake of the so called …

Debates on the impact of management ideas tend to assume a mechanistic view of
knowledge with its value or threat conceived of in terms of the extent to which it is directly …

Silo organization and professional tensions have undermined attempts to share knowledge
across the public sector. The failure to share knowledge and information has been the cause …

In the decade since the publication of Julian Orr's Talking About Machines: An Ethnography
of a Modern Job, the field of organization studies has yet to develop a rich and complete …

Työssä oppimisen käsite on arkipäiväistynyt osaksi organisaatioiden kehittämistä koskevaa
retoriikkaa ja oppimisesta puhutaan jopa verkostoyhteiskunnan uutena työn muotona …

Ethnography of technical work is susceptible of many readings. The author responds,
suggesting that learning, narratives, and community all derive from the work and cannot be …