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

by Choo, Chun Wei.

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Oxford University Press, 2006.

Communication in organizations.

Decision making.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

9780195176780 (pbk.)

9780195176773 (hc.)

xiv, 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-339) and index.

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 .

"Integrating new research and examples throughout, this second edition links the broad areas of organizational behavior and information management. How organizations behave as information-seeking, information-creating, and information-using communities. The author introduces a unifying framework to show how organizations create meaning, knowledge, and action. A model of how organizations use information strategically to adapt to external change and to foster internal growth. 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. New and expanded chapters on information failures, organizational learning, knowledge creation, and information-seeking behavior. Ideal for graduate courses in information science, organizational behavior, organizational communications, and management information systems. Chun Wei Choo is a professor in the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto. His recent books include The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organizational Knowledge (2002), Information Management for the Intelligent Organization (2001), and Web Work: Information Seeking and Knowledge Work on the World Wide Web (2000)"--Provided by publisher.

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