The Learning Organization: Volume 16 Issue 5

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Table of contents - Special Issue: Knowledge and learning in practice‐based studies

Guest Editors: Rudi Kaufmann, Shlomo Tarba

Knowing and learning in practice‐based studies: an introduction

Silvia Gherardi

The aim of this introduction to the special issue is to furnish a panorama on how practice‐based studies (PBS) concerned with organizational learning have developed in recent…

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Materiality in a practice‐based approach

Connie Svabo

The paper aims to provide an overview of the vocabulary for materiality which is used by practice‐based approaches to organizational knowing.

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The active role of instruments in articulating knowing and knowledge: The case of animal qualification practices in breeding organisations

Julie Labatut, Franck Aggeri, Jean‐Michel Astruc, Bernard Bibé, Nathalie Girard

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of instruments defined as artefacts, rules, models or norms, in the articulation between knowing‐in‐practice and knowledge, in…

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Tinkering with material resources: Operating under ambiguous conditions in rock construction work

Alexander Styhre

Ethnographic studies of, for instance, laboratory work show that practices never reach a full closure but are always open to contingencies and ambiguities, making it possible to…

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Emerging interdisciplinary practice: making nanoreactors

Dorothy Sutherland Olsen

The paper aims to gain a better understanding of how different disciplines work together to develop new technologies.

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ISSN:

0969-6474

Online date, start – end:

1994

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Professor Nataša Rupčić