On Organizational Becoming: Rethinking Organizational Change
- H. Tsoukas, Robert Cheng Huat Chia
- BusinessOrgan. Sci.
- 1 September 2002
This paper set out to offer an account of organizational change on its own terms--to treat change as the normal condition of organizational life, by drawing on the work of several organizational ethnographers.
The firm as a distributed knowledge system : A constructionist approach
- H. Tsoukas
- Business
- 1 December 1996
Firms are distributed knowledge systems in a strong sense: they are decentered systems, iacking an overseeing 'mind'; the knowledge they need to draw upon is inherently indeterminate and continually emerging.
Process studies of change in organization and management : unveiling temporality, activity, and flow
- A. Langley, C. Smallman, H. Tsoukas, A. V. D. Ven
- Business
- 1 February 2013
Process studies focus attention on how and why things emerge, develop, grow, or terminate over time. We identify various ontological assumptions underlying process research, explore its methods and…
A Dialogical Approach to the Creation of New Knowledge in Organizations
- H. Tsoukas
- BusinessOrgan. Sci.
- 1 November 2009
This paper addresses the question of new knowledge created in organizations by focusing on direct social interaction by adopting a dialogical approach, and several organizational examples are reinterpreted to illustrate the above points.
What is Organizational Knowledge
- H. Tsoukas, Efi Vladimirou
- Business
- 1 November 2001
Organizational knowledge is much talked about but little understood. In this paper we set out to conceptualize organizational knowledge and explore its implications for knowledge management. We take…
Do we really understand tacit knowledge
- H. Tsoukas
- Philosophy
- 2002
This paper advances the claim that tacit knowledge has been greatly misunderstood in management studies. Nonaka and Takeuchi’s widely adopted interpretation of tacit knowledge as knowledge awaiting…
The Validity of Idiographic Research Explanations
- H. Tsoukas
- Philosophy
- 1 October 1989
This paper attempts to address the question of whether organizational explanations produced through idiographic studies can be regarded as externally valid. It is argued that explanatory idiographic…
Making sense of the sensemaking perspective: Its constituents, limitations, and opportunities for further development
- Jörgen Sandberg, H. Tsoukas
- Environmental Science
- 1 February 2015
Through a wide-ranging critical review of relevant publications, we explore and articulate what constitutes the sensemaking perspective in organization studies, as well as its range of applications…
The Missing Link: A Transformational View of Metaphors in Organizational Science
- H. Tsoukas
- Education
- 1 July 1991
This article outlines the different knowledge functions of metaphors in lay and scientific discourses and proposes a methodology for the development of metaphors to yield deeper organizational…
What is Reflection-in-Action? A Phenomenological Account
- D. Yanow, H. Tsoukas
- Philosophy
- 26 October 2009
Building on the work of Donald Schon and phenomenological treatments of practice, we propose a phenomenological theory of reflection-in-action that develops this concept further, thereby transcending…
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