1st Edition
Knowledge Sharing in Professions Roles and Identity in Expert Communities
By Alexander Styhre
Copyright 2011
206 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
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Routledge
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No professional is an island. Despite their capacity to monopolize and erect entry barriers in terms of either formal credentials or membership of certain organizations, professionalism is inextricably bound up with collective accomplishments on a day-to-day basis and the capacity to share all the resources that constitute the professional domain of expertise. Knowledge Sharing in Professions... Read more
Preface; Introduction: Professional Work in the Portfolio Society; Part I Theory; Chapter 1 Professionals, Practitioners, Practices; Chapter 2 Knowledge Sharing as Identity Work and Professional Virtue; Part II Practices; Chapter 3 Life Science Work: The Sharing of Knowledge and Mutual Adjustment in Dynamic Environments; Chapter 4 Management Consultants: Knowledge Claims, Relational Identities and the Need for Knowledge Sharing in Consulting Work; Chapter 5 Architects: Visuality and Materiality in Design and Construction Work; Chapter 6 Knowledge Sharing as Professional Practice: Theoretical and Practical Implications;
Biography
Alexander Styhre is Professor, Chair of Organization Theory and Management in the Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Economics, and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Professor Styhre has published extensively in the field of organization theory, his most recent books are Visual Cultures in Organizations (Routledge, 2010) and Perception and Organization (Palgrave, 2009). Styhre has participated in research projects at major Swedish companies such as Ericsson, Skanska, PEAB, AstraZeneca, and Volvo Car Corporation.
