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Explaining Ignoring: Working with Information that Nobody Uses
- Source :
- Organization Studies. 43:725-747
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2021.
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Abstract
- Research has demonstrated how ignorance is made, manipulated and called upon; how it is the result of strategies, activities and structures. This article extends the literature on ignorance by exploring actors’ own explanations of their self-inflicted ignorance following acts of ignoring. By means of a case analysis, we explore how actors explain and justify ignoring data they themselves produced. We provide a multifaceted model of how ignoring actors’ own rationales, facilitated by contextual conditions, enables persistent acts of ignoring the content and dysfunction of collectively upheld systems. We contribute to the understanding of ignorance by demonstrating how self-inflicted ignorance is made possible by the combination of ignoring rationales and their facilitators, which configures buffers against knowledge-seeking efforts.
- Subjects :
- Information management
Strategic ignorance
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Knowledge management
Strategy and Management
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Division of labour
Ignorance
Transparency
nobody
Wilful ignorance
Management of Technology and Innovation
Performance measurement
0502 economics and business
050602 political science & public administration
Sociology
Tansparency
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Healthcare
05 social sciences
Knowledge managment
Transparency (behavior)
0506 political science
Epistemology
Professionalism
Functional stupidity
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050203 business & management
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Details
- ISSN :
- 17413044 and 01708406
- Volume :
- 43
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Organization Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2d257476e93368e695a8538ba7a1ef18