1st Edition
The Micropolitics of Knowledge Communication and Indirect Control in Workgroups
By Emmanuel Lazega
Copyright 1992
158 Pages
by
Routledge
158 Pages
by
Routledge
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For many years Emmanuel Lazega has explored communication behavior and decision-making processes of small workgroups within larger organizations. To account for the knowledge claims of members of those groups, and for the ways in which such claims are legitimated collectively and translated into action, he presents a theory of the interactive elaboration of information on which decisions are... Read more
Introduction: What Is an Informed Decision? Informed Decisions and Rationality; A Theory of Knowledge Claims; Structure, Process, and Control: An Organizational Approach; Communication in Organizations: Methodological Choices 1 Knowing Well and the Sociology of Knowledge 2 Boundary Work and Forms of Endogenous Knowledge 3 Structural Constraints on Knowledge Claims 4 Knowledge Claims in a Bureaucratic Workgroup 5 Knowledge Claims in a Collegial Workgroup
Biography
Emmanuel Lazega
