Chun Wei Choo
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- December 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199782031
- eISBN:
- 9780190459598
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199782031.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This book examines how modes of knowledge acquisition and information seeking adopted by an organization lead to the construction of beliefs and the formation of epistemic practices that can both ...
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This book examines how modes of knowledge acquisition and information seeking adopted by an organization lead to the construction of beliefs and the formation of epistemic practices that can both enable and encumber organizational learning. This then is a book about the epistemology of organizational learning and information seeking, how organizations acquire and justify knowledge, and how information is sought and shaped to warrant as well as to question beliefs. The book progressively develops a set of information and epistemic features used to define an inquiring organization. An inquiring organization is one that is motivated to acquire knowledge and that has developed norms and practices of information seeking and knowledge acquisition that are truth-conducive, thereby enabling the organization to better align its actions with reality and so improve its prospects for actions that lead to success. An inquiring organization seeks information because it wants to be well-informed and correctly informed, so that it may acquire true belief. It sees knowledge as the result of an ongoing process of inquiry in which knowledge is always provisional and always being improved upon. Beliefs are linked to experience, and the seeking of knowledge is an inclusive, collective enterprise.Less
This book examines how modes of knowledge acquisition and information seeking adopted by an organization lead to the construction of beliefs and the formation of epistemic practices that can both enable and encumber organizational learning. This then is a book about the epistemology of organizational learning and information seeking, how organizations acquire and justify knowledge, and how information is sought and shaped to warrant as well as to question beliefs. The book progressively develops a set of information and epistemic features used to define an inquiring organization. An inquiring organization is one that is motivated to acquire knowledge and that has developed norms and practices of information seeking and knowledge acquisition that are truth-conducive, thereby enabling the organization to better align its actions with reality and so improve its prospects for actions that lead to success. An inquiring organization seeks information because it wants to be well-informed and correctly informed, so that it may acquire true belief. It sees knowledge as the result of an ongoing process of inquiry in which knowledge is always provisional and always being improved upon. Beliefs are linked to experience, and the seeking of knowledge is an inclusive, collective enterprise.
