Knowing in translation practice

Facilitating - or inhibiting - knowing in practice

European Journal of Information Systems (2006) 15, 441–445. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ejis.3000633 It is increasingly recognized that the ability to create, use and reuse knowledge is key to organizational survival, underpinning the development of routine practices that encourage efficiency as well as innovation processes that can increase organizational flexibility (Grant, 1996). Knowledge enables ...

Knowing in practice: Re- conceptualising vocational expertise

LEARNING AND KNOWING THROUGH SENSING PRACTICE Authors:

In this paper we describe the shifting knowledge logics of two work communities as these two communities try to align with stakeholders in the development and implementation of two different projects. In both cases the display of senses becomes vital in order for the communities to appear as if they align with rationalistic and cognitive learning and sense-making. Observation of and narratives ...

Special Issue: Knowledge, Knowing, and Organizations: Knowing in Practice: Enacting a Collective Capability in Distributed Organizing

In this paper, I outline a perspective on knowing in practice which highlights the essential role of human action in knowing how to get things done in complex organizational work. The perspective suggests that knowing is not a static embedded capability or stable disposition of actors, but rather an ongoing social accomplishment, constituted and reconstituted as actors engage the world in pract...

investigating the integration of translation technologies into translation programs in iranian universities: basis for a syllabus design in translation technology

today, information technology and computers are indispensable tools of any profession and translation technologies have become an indispensable part of translator’s workstation. with the increasing demands for high productivity and speed as well as consistency and with the rise of new demands for translation and localization, it is necessary for translators to be familiar with market demands an...