Organizational Knowledge: The Texture of Workplace Learning

The book’s intended contribution is encapsulated by the expression which represents its central conceptual pillar: ‘knowing in practice’. This signifies that knowledge is studied as a social process, human and material, aesthetic as well as emotive and ethical, and that knowledge is embedded in practice, as the domain where doing and knowing are one and the same. The concept has a historical precedent of great importance which marks out an emergent strand of analysis centred on what are now known as ‘practice-based studies’.\nThis book aims to show how safety can be interpreted as an organizational practice and how, within it, a researcher can empirically describe how ‘learning’, ‘knowing’ and ‘organizing’ are…