Skillful Performance: Enacting Capabilities, Knowledge, Competence, and Expertise in Organizations (Perspectives on Process Organization Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (759 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198806639 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is the co-founder and co-organizer of the International Symposium on Process Organization Studies (with Ann Langley). About the AuthorJorgen Sandberg is Professor in the School of Business at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is particularly interested in process-oriented research and methodology and has published a number of papers on that topic. He has published several books, including ManagingUnderstanding in Organizations (with Targama, Sage, 2007), Constructing Research Questions: Doing Interesting Research (with Alvesson, Sage, 2013), and numerous book chapters. His research interests include competence and learning in organizations, leadership, practice-based research, sensemaking, theory development, qualitative research methods and philosophy of science. Her research focuses on strategic change, inter-professional collaboration and the pract
She is co-responsible for the GePS (Study Group of strategy-as-practice, HEC Montreal). He is the co-founder and co-organizer of the International Symposium on Process Organization Studies (with Ann Langley). His research is informed by process philosophy, phenomenology, and neo-Aristotelian perspectives on reason and the social. In 2013, she was co-guest editor with Clive Smallman, Haridimos Tsoukas and Andrew Van de Ven of a Special Research Forum of Academy of Management J
Such rethinking opens up several new conversations and extends the range of inquiry about how capabilities, knowledge, competence, and expertise are accomplished in practice, and, consequently, how they may be improved.. One of the most intriguing questions since the time of Plato concerns what defines skillful performance in terms of specific capabilities, knowledge, competence, and expertise. Process thinking has not sufficiently explored skillful performance. As Frederick Taylor famously noted, an answer to that question would enable us to know what to focus on and what to do to improve the performance of individuals, groups, and organizations. Although we have come to know a great deal about the 'properties' of capabilities, knowledge, competence, a