Knowledge communication in global organisations : making sense of virtual teams

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Knowledge communication in global organisations : making sense of virtual teams

Nils Braad Petersen

(Routledge studies in management, organisation and society)

Routledge, 2023

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

While organisations become more and more global, they also become more and more dispersed and virtual. This challenges the sense of a shared organisational identity and the ability of employees to communicate personally held knowledge. To address these challenges this book offers an innovative multidisciplinary approach to knowledge communication in global organisations. The book develops a multidisciplinary analytical lens through which to understand employee identity formations and knowledge communication practises. Using detailed analyses of interviews from a real organisation, the book builds an understanding of how 21st century employees make sense of a virtual organisational reality characterised by multiple simultaneous projects and virtual, dispersed teams. These analyses are conducted using a new discourse analysis method for analysing research interviews, Discursive Sensemaking Analysis. Using these methods and findings, researchers, project managers and HR professionals will be able to analyse their own organisations to discover how employees make sense of the complexity of 21st century global organisations.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction Part I: Discursive Sensemaking - Foundation, theory & method Chapter 2: Discursive Sensemaking Analysis - a foundation Chapter 3: Discursive Sensemaking Analysis - a theory Chapter 4: Discursive Sensemaking Analysis - a method Part II: Multidisciplinary perspective on knowledge communication practices in virtual teams Chapter 5: Challenges and opportunities of virtual work in global organisations Chapter 6: A vocabulary for describing virtual knowledge communication Chapter 7: Knowing as learning in Communities of Practice (CoP) Chapter 8: Professional identity as (D)iscursive construction Chapter 9: Relationships supporting virtual knowledge communication Chapter 10: Conclusion and discussion of theory and findings

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