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Inquiring organizations moving from knowledge management to wisdom /

This book assembles into one volume a comprehensive collection of the key current thinking regarding the use of C. West Churchman's Design of Inquiring Systems as a basis for computer-based inquiring systems design and implementation. Inquiring systems are systems that go beyond knowledge manag...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: IGI Global.
Other Authors: Courtney, James F. 1944-, Haynes, John D. 1948-, Paradice, David B.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2005.
Subjects:
Organizational learning.
Knowledge management.
Knowledge, Theory of.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Inquiring organizations / Dianne Hall, David Croasdell
  • II. Information technology and Hegelian inquiring organizations / Bongsug Chae, James Courtney, John Haynes
  • III. The design and evolution of Singerian inquiring organizations / Alice Kienholz
  • IV. Kantian inquiring systems / Ahmed Mahfouz, David Paradice
  • V. Email and knowledge creation / Sharman Lichtenstein, Craig Parker, Margaret Cybulski
  • VI. Supporting the complexity of inquiring organizations / Dianne Hall, Yi Guo
  • VII. Knowledge creation in inquiring organizations using KDD / John Murray, Thomas Case, Adrian Gardiner
  • VIII. Using inquiring practice and uncovering exformation for information systems development / Martina Lundin, Morten Vendelo
  • IX. Avoiding epistemological myopia / Robert Mason
  • X. Inquiring organizations and the wisdom of tacit knowledge for a Heideggerian inquiring system / John Haynes
  • XI. Mindfulness / Kay Fielden
  • XII. Wise organizations? / Chauncey Bell
  • XIII. The phenomenon of duality / Nilmini Wickramasinghe
  • XIV. Understanding organizational philosophies of inquiry through hermeneutic analysis of organizational texts / Michael Dickey, David Paradice
  • XV. Transforming organizational culture to the ideal inquiring organization / Leoni Warne, Helen Hasan, Irena Ali
  • XVI. Exploiting reusable abstractions in organizational inquiry / Haim Kilov, Ira Sack.

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