Planning as practice of knowing

Follow the Experts: Intercultural Competence as Knowing-in-Practice

This chapter explores individual intercultural competence as an enacted capability developed through social interaction and experience with dominant local cultures and minority cultures. The authors employ a knowing-as-practice perspective, following Nicolini et al. (2003), and notions of tacit knowledge within particular domains (Sternberg et al., 1995), to suggest that the study of intercultu...

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 ...

Epistemic work and knowing in practice as conceptualizations of information use

Introduction. The study contributes to the conceptual investigation of information use by reviewing the conceptions of epistemic work proposed by Cook and Brown, and knowing in practice proposed by Orlikowski. The above conceptions are developed in the field of organization science. Method. The key articles by Cook and Brown, and Orlikowski were scrutinized by means of indepth conceptual analys...