In this book Haridimos Tsoukas, one of the most imaginative organizational theorists of our time, examines the nature of knowledge in organizations, and how individuals and scholars approach the concept of knowledge.An ideal introduction to the thinking of a leading organizational theorist, this book will be essential reading for academics, researchers, and students of Knowledge Management, Organization Studies, Management Studies, Business Strategy, and Applied Epistemology.

• Introduction


• Part I: Explorations into Organizational Knowledge


• 1: The Firm as a Distributed Knowledge System


• 2: Forms of Knowledge and Forms of Life in Organized Contexts


• 3: (with E. Valdimirou): What is Organizational Knowledge?


• 4: The Tyranny of Light: The Temptations and the Paradoxes of the Information Society


• 5: Where Does New Organizational Knowledge Come From?


• Part II: Coping with Organizational Complexity


• 6: (with D. Papoulias): Understanding Social Reforms: A Conceptual Analysis


• 7: Chaos, Compelxity, and Organiztion Theory


• 8: (with Mary Jo Hatch): Complex Thinking, Complex Practice: The Case for a Narrative Approach to Organizational Complexity


• 9: Reading Organizations: Uncertainty, Complexity, Narrativity


• Part III: Meta-Knowledge: The Epistemology of Management Research


• 10: Refining Common Sense: Types of Knowledge in Management Studies


• 11: The Word and the World: A Critique of Representationalism in Management Research


• 12: What is Good Theory? Arguments for a Discursive Organization Science


• 13: (with Christian Knudsen): The Conduct of Strategy Research

Haridimos Tsoukas is the George D. Mavros Research Professor of Organization and Management at ALBA in Greece, and Professor of Organization Studies, University of Warwick, UK. Previous positions held include Lecturer at Warwick Business School (1990-5), and Associate Professor at the University of Cyprus.