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Language | English |
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Pages | 141-158 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Management Learning |
Volume | 39 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2008 |
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Keywords
- knowledge
- sublimation
- uncertainty
- Wittgenstein
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On managerial knowledge. / Chia, R.; Holt, R.
In: Management Learning, Vol. 39, No. 2, 04.2008, p. 141-158.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - On managerial knowledge
AU - Chia, R.
AU - Holt, R.
PY - 2008/4
Y1 - 2008/4
N2 - This article investigates what it means for a manager to be knowledgeable. It identifies, on the one hand, a rational tendency to sublimate knowledge as something more exact, definitive and logical than mere learning, and, on the other hand, a practical tendency to subjugate knowledge to social conventions. Articulating a third way between these views, the article critically develops the work of those management scholars for whom the objectivity of knowledge claims is perpetually upset by the recurring influence of environmental context, novel use and localized, community agreement. The influence of what Wittgenstein refers to as background conditions is identified and this background is woven into personal, empirical experiences of events as the bedrock upon which knowledgeable conditions rest. It is not profound, or inaccessibly 'deep', but right there before us; it is ordinary belief. It is argued that very often it is these everyday settings that are most revealing when it comes to investigating and understanding what goes by the name managerial knowledge.
AB - This article investigates what it means for a manager to be knowledgeable. It identifies, on the one hand, a rational tendency to sublimate knowledge as something more exact, definitive and logical than mere learning, and, on the other hand, a practical tendency to subjugate knowledge to social conventions. Articulating a third way between these views, the article critically develops the work of those management scholars for whom the objectivity of knowledge claims is perpetually upset by the recurring influence of environmental context, novel use and localized, community agreement. The influence of what Wittgenstein refers to as background conditions is identified and this background is woven into personal, empirical experiences of events as the bedrock upon which knowledgeable conditions rest. It is not profound, or inaccessibly 'deep', but right there before us; it is ordinary belief. It is argued that very often it is these everyday settings that are most revealing when it comes to investigating and understanding what goes by the name managerial knowledge.
KW - knowledge
KW - sublimation
KW - uncertainty
KW - Wittgenstein
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350507607087579
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DO - 10.1177/1350507607087579
M3 - Article
VL - 39
SP - 141
EP - 158
JO - Management Learning
T2 - Management Learning
JF - Management Learning
SN - 1350-5076
IS - 2
ER -