The Inquiring Organization: How Organizations Acquire Knowledge and Seek Information
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What Are The Practices, Arrangements, And Mechanisms That Make Up How An Organisation Knows What It Knows? What Are The Underlying Values And Norms That Shape The Character And Orientation Of Those Methods? What Can We Learn From Failures And Disasters In Organisational Learning - And How Do Organisations Become Susceptible To Common Learning Traps Such As The Self-fulfilling Prophecy, Groupthink, Group Polarisation, Learning Myopia And Selective Information Processing? Here, Chun Wei Choo Examines How An Organisation's Knowledge-acquisition And Information-seeking Leads To The Construction Of Beliefs And The Formation Of Epistemic Practices That Can Affect Its Capacity To Learn And Grow. Chun Wei Choo. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.
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THE THESIS
This book investigates the fundamental mechanisms, values, and epistemic practices that determine how organizations acquire knowledge and process information. Chun Wei Choo, a scholar in information management, utilizes a multidisciplinary framework to analyze how organizational culture and cognitive biases influence decision-making. The text explores the intersection of information seeking and organizational learning, arguing that the way an entity constructs its beliefs directly dictates its capacity for growth or failure.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- Analysis of organizational learning traps such as groupthink, group polarization, and learning myopia.
- Examination of the relationship between information seeking and the construction of organizational beliefs.
- Theoretical frameworks for understanding epistemic practices within professional environments.
Scope Limits
- The text focuses primarily on the cognitive and structural aspects of information processing rather than technical IT infrastructure.
- It does not provide a prescriptive 'how-to' manual for specific software implementation.
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Experts recognize this work as a foundational text for understanding the intersection of information science and organizational theory. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which is well-suited for researchers and management professionals seeking a rigorous analysis of corporate knowledge systems.
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Publication Date:
1900-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
ISBN-10:
019045959X
ISBN-13:
9780190459598
Business
Management
Information Science
Organizational Learning
Corporate Strategy
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