HOW IS ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE CREATED IN A VIRTUAL CONTEXT? AN EMPIRICAL APPROACH Key words: knowledge, virtual, dialogicality

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  • Evangelia Baralou
  • Haridimos Tsoukas
چکیده

The paper aims to explore, theoretically and empirically, the creation of orgnizational knowledge in the virtual context, in which geographically dispersed individuals communicate through Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The paper brings together the writings of Vygotsky, Bakhtin, Schön and Goffman to argue that knowledge creation involves the continuous effort of individuals to understand themselves through external and internal dialogues they have, with real and imaginal others and with artifacts, within various front and back regions of interaction, in a way not easily done in a face-to-face context. We empirically explore the process by conducting discourse analysis on a virtual setting, based on the discursive practices of

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تاریخ انتشار 2009