Organizational Knowledge: The Texture of Workplace Learning

by Silvia Gherardi

This book makes an important contribution to our understanding of practice-based organizational learning and knowing.

292 pages, Hardcover

First published January 18, 2005

About the author

She is a prominent Italian sociologist

Reviews

[Benjamin Reid · Rating 4 out of 5]

I learned from this book that you can rewrite a few sentences of each of your last few journal publications and publish it as a new book...

Seriously, it's an excellent monograph bringing together a lot of Professor Gherardi's pioneering work in the field of 'knowing in practice'.

It combines a good outline of the intellectual background, with some excellent examples from her empricial work, particularly around safety practices on construction sites.

I think the book could probably gain from investigating the cross-over between identity and identity work theories which spring from a similar interest in practice, and from an engagement with the critics of practice-based knowing.

[Rebecca Halleron · Rating 1 out of 5]

One of the worst books I have ever read. The majority was poorly written and was not always understandable