Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Integrating new research and examples throughout, the second edition of The Knowing Organization links the broad areas of organizational behavior and information management. It looks at how organizations behave as information-seeking, information-creating, and information-using communities and
introduces a unifying framework to show how organizations create meaning, knowledge, and action.
The book provides a model of how organizations use information strategically to adapt to external change and to foster internal growth. This model examines how people and groups within organizations use information to create an identity and a shared context for action and reflection; to develop new
knowledge and new capabilities; and to make decisions that commit resources and capabilities to purposeful action. The second edition features new and expanded chapters on information failures, organizational learning, knowledge creation, and information-seeking behavior.
The Knowing Organization, Second Edition, is ideal for graduate courses in information science, organizational behavior, organizational communications, and management information systems.
Card catalog description
The Knowing Organization is the first text that links the broad areas of organizational behavior and information management. It looks at how organizations behave as information-seeking, information-creating, and information-using communities, and offers models of how organizations behave and how information participates in that behavior. Choo pursues three main objectives throughout the text. First, he analyses and compares the principal modes by which an organization uses information strategically to make sense of its changing environment, create knowledge, and make decisions. Second, he examines the structure and dynamics of how information is sought and used in each of these modes: sensemaking through the development of shared meanings; knowledge creation through the conversion and sharing of different forms of organizational knowledge; and decision making through the use of rules and routines that reduce complexity and uncertainty. Lastly, the author proposes a new framework of the knowing organization in which sensemaking, knowledge-creating, and decision making are linked as a continuum of nested activities that invigorates an organization with the information and knowledge to act intelligently.
--This text refers to the
Paperback
edition.
The Knowing Organization : How Organizations Use Information to Construct Meaning, Create Knowledge, and Make Decisions,Chun Wei Choo,Oxford University Press, USA,0195176782,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Communication in organizations,Decision Making & Problem Solving,Decision making,General,Knowledge, Sociology of,Leadership,Organizational Behavior,Business & Economics / Organizational Behavior,Business | Management | Organizational Behavior,Organizational theory & behaviour
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