1st Edition

Knowledge Communication in Global Organisations Making Sense of Virtual Teams

By Nils Braad Petersen Copyright 2023
236 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more
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

Biography

Nils Braad Petersen holds a PhD in Business Communicating from Aarhus University, Denmark.