Knowing as an activity: implications for the film industry and semi-permanent work groups
Knowing as an activity: implications for the film industry and semi-permanent work groups
The central concern of this chapter is to provide a theoretical explanation of the nature of knowing in an industry organized around project-based work, the film industry. In particular, it explains how knowledge of the work process, culture and rules of film production are gained and stored by both individuals and semi-permanent work groups (SPWGs, Blair, 2000) and then contributed for a short time to organizations. This exploration is particularly interesting as the film industry presents a context in which production organizations are temporary entities and there are no permanent organizational structures through which knowledge can be communicated and maintained.
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Daskalaki, Maria
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Blair, Helen
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2004
Daskalaki, Maria
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Blair, Helen
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Daskalaki, Maria and Blair, Helen
(2004)
Knowing as an activity: implications for the film industry and semi-permanent work groups.
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Tsoukas, Haridimos and Mylonopoulos, Nikolaos
(eds.)
Organizations as Knowledge Systems.
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The central concern of this chapter is to provide a theoretical explanation of the nature of knowing in an industry organized around project-based work, the film industry. In particular, it explains how knowledge of the work process, culture and rules of film production are gained and stored by both individuals and semi-permanent work groups (SPWGs, Blair, 2000) and then contributed for a short time to organizations. This exploration is particularly interesting as the film industry presents a context in which production organizations are temporary entities and there are no permanent organizational structures through which knowledge can be communicated and maintained.
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Published date: 2004
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Helen Blair
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Haridimos Tsoukas
Editor:
Nikolaos Mylonopoulos
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