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Author Choo, Chun Wei.

Title The knowing organization : how organizations use information to construct meaning, create knowledge, and make decisions / Chun Wei Choo.

Imprint New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  658.45 C455k 2006    ---  DUE 05-10-24
Edition 2nd ed.
Description xiv, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-339) and index.
Contents The Knowing Organization -- How We Come to Know -- Understanding Information Seeking Behavior -- The Management of Ambiguity: Organizations as Sensemaking Communities -- The Management of Learning: Organizations as Knowledge-creating Enterprises -- The Management of Uncertainty: Organizations as Decision-Making Systems -- A Tale of Two Accidents Space -- Knowing and Learning in Organizations.
Summary This title links the broad areas of organizational behaviour and information management. It brings together research in organizational theory and information science in a general framework for understanding how organizations behave as information-seeking, information-creating, and information-using communities.
Subject Communication in organizations.
Decision making.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Communication in organizations. (OCoLC)fst00870217
Decision making. (OCoLC)fst00889035
Knowledge, Sociology of. (OCoLC)fst00988190
ISBN 0195176782 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780195176780 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0195176774 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780195176773 (cloth ; alk. paper)

 
    
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