KNOWLEDGE COMMUNICATION IN GLOBAL ORGANISATIONS making sense of virtual teams

Summary: 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 multidisciplinary analytical lens through which to understand employee identity formations and knowledge communication practises. Using detailed analyses of interviews from a real organisation, the book builds an understanding of how 21st century employees make sense of a virtual organisational reality characterised by multiple simultaneous projects and virtual, dispersed teams. These analyses are conducted using a new discourse analysis method for analysing research interviews, Discursive Sensemaking Analysis. Using these methods and findings, researchers, project managers and HR professionals will be able to analyse their own organisations to discover how employees make sense of the complexity of 21st century global organisations.

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ISBN: 9781032419701 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780367857950
ISBN: 0367857952
ISBN: 9781000823950
ISBN: 1000823954
ISBN: 1003015921
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Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: [S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2022.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Chapter 1: Introduction<BR>Part I: Discursive Sensemaking -- Foundation, theory & method<BR>Chapter 2: Discursive Sensemaking Analysis -- a foundation<BR>Chapter 3: Discursive Sensemaking Analysis -- a theory<BR>Chapter 4: Discursive Sensemaking Analysis -- a method<BR>Part II: Multidisciplinary perspective on knowledge communication practices in virtual teams<BR>Chapter 5: Challenges and opportunities of virtual work in global organisations<BR>Chapter 6: A vocabulary for describing virtual knowledge communication<BR>Chapter 7: Knowing as learning in Communities of Practice (CoP)<BR>Chapter 8: Professional identity as (D)iscursive construction <BR>Chapter 9: Relationships supporting virtual knowledge communication<BR>Chapter 10: Conclusion and discussion of theory and findings
Biographical or Historical Data:	Nils Braad Petersen holds a PhD in Business Communicating from Aarhus University, Denmark.