The Micropolitics of Knowledge - Communication and Indirect Control in Workgroups

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 based.

List of contents

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

About the author

Emmanuel Lazega

Summary

For many years Emmanuel Lazega has explored communication behavior and decision-making processes of small workgroups within larger organizations

Product details

• Authors: Emmanuel Lazega, Lazega Emmanuel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780202304267
• ISBN: 978-0-202-30426-7
• No. of pages: 158
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 12 mm x 234 mm
• Weight: 354 g
• Series: Communication & Social Order
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Communication / General, Business communication & presentation, Organizational theory & behaviour, Business communication and presentation, Organizational theory and behaviour, Endogenous;Claims;Bureaucratic;Collegial;Workgroup