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This book offers a unique solution to the shortage of more
imaginative and engaging research by re-imagining the core elements
of the research process. In contrast to existing methods, which
mainly focus on standard ingredients in the research process, the
metaphorical approach taken here offers a more varied and
comprehensive platform for producing novel, influential and
relevant research. The set of guiding principles suggested in the
book provides researchers with the resources to break away from
existing conventions and templates for conducting and writing
research. Re-imagining the Research Process: Conventional and
Alternative Metaphors is suitable for upper-undergraduate and
postgraduate students and researchers interested in challenging
traditional views of the research process. Mats Alvesson holds a
chair in the Business Administration department at Lund University
in Sweden and is also a part-time professor at University of
Queensland Business School, Australia and at Cass Business School,
UK. Jorgen Sandberg is Professor at UQ Business School, University
of Queensland, Australia, and Distinguished Research Environment
Professor in Organization Studies at the Warwick Business School,
UK.
This book offers a unique solution to the shortage of more
imaginative and engaging research by re-imagining the core elements
of the research process. In contrast to existing methods, which
mainly focus on standard ingredients in the research process, the
metaphorical approach taken here offers a more varied and
comprehensive platform for producing novel, influential and
relevant research. The set of guiding principles suggested in the
book provides researchers with the resources to break away from
existing conventions and templates for conducting and writing
research. Re-imagining the Research Process: Conventional and
Alternative Metaphors is suitable for upper-undergraduate and
postgraduate students and researchers interested in challenging
traditional views of the research process. Mats Alvesson holds a
chair in the Business Administration department at Lund University
in Sweden and is also a part-time professor at University of
Queensland Business School, Australia and at Cass Business School,
UK. Jorgen Sandberg is Professor at UQ Business School, University
of Queensland, Australia, and Distinguished Research Environment
Professor in Organization Studies at the Warwick Business School,
UK.
One of the most intriguing questions since the time of Plato
concerns what defines skillful performance in terms of specific
capabilities, knowledge, competence, and expertise. As Frederick
Taylor famously noted, an answer to that question would enable us
to know what to focus on and what to do to improve the performance
of individuals, groups, and organizations. Although we have come to
know a great deal about the 'properties' of capabilities,
knowledge, competence, and expertise at large, we know
significantly less about how they are enacted in skillful
performance. Thus, how skillful performance draws on knowledge, how
skills develop, and how competencies and capabilities are put to
action are still eluding us. Process thinking has not sufficiently
explored skillful performance. This book aims to address this gap.
It brings together scholars from different backgrounds, traditions,
and disciplines whose common perspective is distinctly
process-oriented. They seek to rethink capabilities, knowledge,
competence, and expertise, not as if these phenomena were already
accomplished but, on the contrary, as processes in the making - as
performative accomplishments. Such rethinking opens up several new
conversations and extends the range of inquiry about how
capabilities, knowledge, competence, and expertise are accomplished
in practice, and, consequently, how they may be improved.
'An excellent and much needed contribution to the management
literature' - Gareth Morgan 'Trough accurate examples and
instructive accounts of what constitutes understanding at work, the
Author leads us to the core link between understanding and
managerial practicing. It is deeply informative, often witty and
always elegant!' - Silvia Gherardi Research Unit on Communication,
Organizational Learning, and Aesthetics dipartimento di sociologia
e ricerca sociale 'The book provides an interesting, accessible and
important contribution to the interpretive understanding of
management and leadership and clearly shows its relevance also for
practitioners' - Mats Alvesson Bringing a fresh perspective to the
evaluation of management problems, this book draws upon
interpretative research and builds upon existing interpretative
studies to scrutinise the influence managers have on employees'
understanding. It considers how managers use ideas and visions to
frame their employees' internalised understanding of the external
rules and instructions that govern their work. The book brings an
interpretative perspective to the question of individual and group
competence and look at how this is linked with understanding.
Throughout Managing Understanding in Organizations refers to
international case studies and considers the cross-cultural impact
on management and understanding at work.
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