Posted by Meckler on July 27, 1997 at 22:07:05:

In Reply to: On Contexts and Changing Concepts of Industry, Organizations, etc. posted by Yogesh Malhotra on July 22, 1997 at 00:30:22:

Yogesh,

I don't have time for to continue the discussion at the moment, but I very much wanted to note what a good post that was. Very helpful.
Sounds like you and I still have a difference of opinion on learning vs. knowledge. I'm working to develope a perspective where knowledge is an object, not an action. Much less confusing. Creation of knowledge, to me, is learning, and yes multiple paradigms, contexts whatevers are helpful. But once we've got something, we package it, share it, preserve it etc for practical use, not just for the creation of more.
We don't have to go back over this now, since we left those postings sitting in the knowledge vs. information stream elseware in the think tank. I'm going to give this more thought and perhaps post after the AOM meeting.
By the way, if you are in Boston for the AOM conference, the morning portion of my session on Saturday will feature H. Levinson, K. Weick and M. Peterson giving alternative perspectives on context sensitivity, with Harry L. speaking of "diagnosis," Karl W. speaking of "sensemaking" and Mark P. of "sources of meaning." Why don't you stop by if you have some time.
One other note, I very much want to put together a large scale project (assuming my dissertation gets finished) on mission/organizational goals as "strange attractor." We'd have to find operant and stated mission/goals and see the extent to which they provide the context withing which events are given meaning, or something like that. Any ideas?

Regards,

Meckler

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