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Project work as a locus of learning : the journey through practice
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Scarbrough, Harry and Swan, Jacky (2008) Project work as a locus of learning : the journey through practice. In: Amin, Ash and Roberts, Joanne, (eds.) Community, Economic Creativity, and Organization. Oxford ; UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 148-177. ISBN 9780199545490
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Abstract
Many organizations ‘re-invent the wheel’ by failing to capture and spread what has been learned from particular projects. This inability to exploit the learning from projects has worrying implications for the growing popularity of the project form as a way of organizing work. This chapter identifies the role which project work plays as a source of learning which emerges alongside, within, and sometimes against, communities of practice. The theoretical framework produced by this analysis is explored through brief case-study descriptions of three projects which produced very different outcomes in terms of the generation, capture and spread of learning. This allows us to derive some conclusions as to the factors influencing the role of projects as a source of learning within organizations, and the implications for attempts to exploit such learning as an organizational resource.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Innovation, Knowledge & Organisational Networks Research Unit Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Industrial Relations & Organisational Behaviour Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Information Systems & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||
Place of Publication: | Oxford ; UK | ||||
ISBN: | 9780199545490 | ||||
Book Title: | Community, Economic Creativity, and Organization | ||||
Editor: | Amin, Ash and Roberts, Joanne | ||||
Official Date: | 2008 | ||||
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Number: | Chapter 6 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 30 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 148-177 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199545490.003.0007 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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