In this book Haridimos Tsoukas, one of the most imaginative
organization theorists of our time, examines the nature of
knowledge in organizations, and how individuals and scholars
approach the concept of knowledge. Tsoukas firstly looks at
organizational knowledge and its embeddedness in social contexts
and forms of life. He shows that knowledge is not just a collection
of free floating representations of the world to be used at will,
but an activity constitutive of the world. On the one hand the
organization as an institutionalized system does produce
regularities that can can be captured via propositional forms of
knowledge. On the other, the organization as practice, as a
lifeworld, or as an open-ended system produce stories, values, and
shared traditions which can only be captured by narrative forms of
knowledge. Secondly, Tsoukas looks at the issue of how individuals
deal with the notion of complexity in organizations: Our inability
to reduce the behaviour of complex organizations to their
constituent parts. Drawing on concepts such as discourse,
narrativity, and reflexivity, he adopts a hermeneutical approach to
the issue. Finally Tsoukas examines the concept of meta-knowledge,
and how we know what we know. Arguing that the underlying
representationalist epistemology of much of mainstream management
causes many problems, he advocates adopting a more discursive
approach. He describes what such an epistemology might be, and
illustrates it with examples from organization studies and
strategic management. An ideal introduction to the thinking of a
leading organizational theorist, this book will be essential
reading for academics, researchers, and students of Knowledge
Management, Organization Studies, Management Studies, Business
Strategy, and Applied Epistemology.
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