Tag Archives: organizing

Organizing for diversity and complexity

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read How do you maintain the integrity of the organization while embracing the chaos beyond? Part of the answer is in supporting communities of practice as a bridge between external networks and those doing the work.

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Organizing multi-voiced organizations – action guiding anticipations and the continuous creation of novelty

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Bakhtin’s ideas of polyphony and dialogism are explored as ways of organising our own human affairs. Traditionally, language has been thought of as an already established, self-contained system of linguistic communication that sets out a set of rules or social … Continue reading →

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Knowing in Practice – Enacting a Collective Capability in Distributed Organizing

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Giorgio Bertini

Read In this paper, I outline a perspective on knowing in practice which highlights the essential role of human action in knowing how to get things done in complex organizational work. The perspective suggests that knowing is not a static … Continue reading →

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Complexity: The Experience of Organising

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Giorgio Bertini

Complexity: the Experience of Organizing is a sequel to the highly successful series Complexity and Emergence in Organizations also edited by the editors of this series. The first series has attracted international attention for its development of the theory of … Continue reading →