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Titre :	The inquiring organization : how organizations acquire knowledge and seek information /
Auteurs :	Chun Wei CHOO, Auteur
Type de document :	Ouvrage
Editeur :	Oxford [Royaume Uni] : Oxford University Press, 2016
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-0-19-978203-1
Format :	IX, 232 p. / 25 cm
Langues:	Anglais
Index. décimale :	303 (Sociologie économique /sociologie du travail / sociologie des entreprises)
Catégories :	Thésaurus du Management FORMATION PROFESSIONNELLE ; MANAGEMENT DES CONNAISSANCES ; ORGANISATION ; SOCIOLOGIE DES ORGANISATIONS
Résumé :	Chun Wei Choo examines how an organization'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. The book explores the epistemology of organizational learning and information seeking; how organizations acquire and justify knowledge; and how information is sought and shaped to warrant as well as to question beliefs. It starts from the premise that organizations are truth-seeking -- they seek beliefs which are well supported by reasoning, evidence, and experience in order to act more effectively. It then makes the case for a normative view of organizational knowledge which identifies the epistemic norms that an organization needs to pursue in order to acquire valid knowledge and true belief. The book progressively develops a set of information and epistemic features that are used to describe an inquiring organization. (source Amazone)