The Knowing Organization: How Organizations Use Information to Construct Meaning, Create Knowledge, and Make Decisions
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (634 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195176782 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Chun Wei Choo is Professor of the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. His recent books include The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organizational Knowledge (OUP, 2002), Information Management for the Intelligent Organization (2001), and Web Work: InformationSeeking and Knowledge Work on the World Wide Web (2000).
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.. 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
"An invaluable introduction for HR and IT professionals." according to Turgay BUGDACIGIL. "This book brings together", Chun Wei Choo writes, "the insight developed from research in organization theory and information science into a generel framework for understanding the richness and complexity of information use in organizations. Research in organization theory suggests that organizations create and use information in three strategic arenas. "one of the original works on organizations" according to A Customer. It mainly focuses on information systems as a core of living organizations. I liked and I recommend this work to everybody who likes original works on organizations.. Necessity in Knowledge Management Juha Mattila The very classic on Knowledge Creation
His purpose is to propose a framework of the 'knowing' organization. The strength of his work lies in the breadth of research he has covered in each of these domains."--Dorothy Leonard, Harvard University"A very readable and informative compendium and synthesis of the large array of contributions that have been made to the management and development of knowledge within organizations. "Professor Choo has taken on the enormous challenge of integrating research in organizational theory and information science in order to understand how organizations can become better information-processing systems. Working from this perspective as a professor of information studies, Choo integrates apparently divergent points of view from the literature on meaning construction and sense making, knowledge creation and building, and decision making. A must f