?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Knowing%2C+learning+and+unlearning+in+a+knowledge+creating+company%3A+An+inductive%2C+theory-building+case+study&rft.creator=Andrews%2C+Kathryn+M.&rft.subject=Organizational+learning&rft.subject=Knowledge+management&rft.subject=Learning+Philosophy&rft.subject=Knowledge%2C+Theory+of&rft.subject=organizational+learning&rft.subject=unlearning&rft.subject=theory+of+knowledge&rft.subject=corporate+epistemology&rft.subject=corporate+knowledge&rft.subject=knowledge-creating+company&rft.subject=knowledge+creation&rft.subject=knowledge-intensive+firms&rft.subject=tacit+knowledge&rft.subject=interpretive+theory&rft.subject=thesis&rft.subject=doctoral&rft.description=This+study+draws+together+two+independently+powerful+but+largely+discrete+constructs%3A+organizational+learning+and+organizational+knowledge.+It+investigates+organizational+learning%2C+unlearning%2C+and+knowledge+processes+in+a+knowledge+company%2C+and+culminates+in+exploration+of+the+relationships+between+the+constructs.%0D%0A%0D%0AOrganizational+learning+is+recognised+as+a+centra~+rather+than+peripheral+organizational+factor%2C+with+its+competitive+value+widely+acknowledged.+However+the+literature+is+characterised+by+divergence%2C+uncertainty+and+flux%2C+and+there+is+wide+spread+agreement+that+new+empirical+research+is+required.+Similarly%2C+there+has+been+recent+intense+interest+in+knowledge+as+an+organizational+and+commercial+factor%2C+but+there+has+been+little+systematic+research+on+its+influence+and+implications.%0D%0A%0D%0AThe+present+study+conducted+inductive%2C+theory-building+case+study+research+to+investigate+organizational+learning%2C+unlearning+and+knowledge+processes.+The+knowledge-creating+company%2C+with+its+pioneering+emphasis+on+knowledge+and+learning%2C+was+selected+as+a+fertile+setting+in+which+to+study+knowledge+and+learning+factors.%0D%0A%0D%0AThe+case+study+site+was+a+bio-medical+research+consortium%2C+and+data+gathering+comprised+four+phases.+Firstly%2C+two+focus+groups+of+scientific+staff+were+conducted+to+identify+a+pool+of+actual+instances+of+organizational+learning+and+unlearning.+Secondly%2C+an+individual+interview+took+place+with+the+centre's+director+to+select+a+focal+example+of+organizational+learning+I+unlearning+for+further+investigation.+The+third+data+gathering+phase+was+individual+semi-structured+interviews+with+scientists%2C+which+investigated+the+learning+and+unlearning+associated+with+the+focal+critical+incident%2C+and+how+learning+I+unlearning+occurred+more+generally.+The+semi-structured+interviews+also+explored+scientists'+views+of+knowledge%2C+initially+by+asking+them+how+they+would+describe+the+knowledge+they+worked+with.+The+final+data+gathering+phase%2C+which+took+place+in+the+semi-structured+interviews%2C+was+a+knowledge+descriptor+exercise+purpose-designed+in+the+present+research.+In+the+knowledge+descriptor+exercise%2C+interview+participants+reviewed+twelve+knowledge+descriptors%2C+and+selected+and+discussed+those+that+they+considered+described+their+own+knowledge.%0D%0A%0D%0AConsistent+with+the+theory-building+purpose+of+the+study%2C+analysis+and+interpretation+was+a+highly+iterative%2C+data+driven+process%2C+with+new+themes+and+insights+emerging+directly+from+the+study'+s+small+data+set.%0D%0A%0D%0ADrawing+together+findings+across+the+study%2C+four+significant+contributions+emerged+quite+clearly.+Moving+from+the+most+general+to+the+most+specific+of+the+findings%2C+the+study's+initial+contribution+was+to+bring+forward+a+series+of+complex+and+subtle+relationships+between+organizational+learning+and+knowledge+processes.+Secondly%2C+the+knowledge+dimensions+that+came+forward+as+significant+in+the+present+study+extended+beyond+the+well-accepted+and+influential+tacit+-+explicit+knowledge+dimension.+Specifically%2C+the+radical+unpredictability+of+the+knowledge+creation+environment%2C+and+the+way+scientists+thought+about+knowledge+itself(their+theory+of+knowledge)+also+appeared+to+impact+on+learning-related+processes.+Thirdly%2C+the+term+knowing+emerged+as+more+appropriate+than+knowledge%2C+as+knowing+reflects+the+active%2C+mediated+knowledge-related+processes+that+the+present+study+identified.+Finally%2C+analyses+in+the+study+pointed+to+a+special+texture+of+working+relationships+in+the+knowledge-creating+company%2C+in+which+social+and+intellectual+processes+were+deeply+interwoven.+The+micro%2C+psychological+and+social+processes+that+underpin+knowledge+processes+emerged+as+highly+influential.+The+interleaving+of+social+and+intellectual+processes+suggests+that+conceptualising+knowledge+creation+and+learning+in+knowledge+companies+as+solely+intellectual+pursuits+may+underestimate+the+complexity+and+dynamism+oflearning-related+processes.%0D%0A%0D%0AIn+summary%2C+by+exploring+organizational+learning+and+organizational+knowledge+processes+concomitantly%2C+subtle+and+intricate+relationships+between+the+two+constructs+were+brought+forward+in+the+study.+Taken+together%2C+the+study's+results+suggest+that+knowing+may+be+at+the+core+of+organizational+processes+in+knowledge+companies%2C+and+that+organizational+theories+should+properly+be+seen+as+in+orbit+around+knowing+itself+Building+adequate+models+of+organizational+processes+in+knowledge+companies+may+well+depend+on+understanding+the+intellectual+and+social+dynamics+of+knowing.&rft.publisher=Queensland+University+of+Technology&rft.date=2000-02&rft.type=Thesis&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Feprints.qut.edu.au%2F36620%2F1%2F36620_Digitised%2520Thesis.pdf&rft.rights=free_to_read&rft.relation=Andrews%2C+Kathryn+M.+(2000)+Knowing%2C+learning+and+unlearning+in+a+knowledge+creating+company%3A+An+inductive%2C+theory-building+case+study.+PhD+thesis%2C+Queensland+University+of+Technology.&rft.id_number=https%3A%2F%2Feprints.qut.edu.au%2F36620%2F&rft.rights=Copyright+Kathryn+Maree+Andrews&rft.identifier=Faculty+of+Education%3B+Chancellery