Great piece! I do like Stacey's prose though (sorry), but didn't know of his matrix (phew). What I do like about Stacey is how he describes knowledge as something that is created between people and that is therefore dynamic in nature. I think this is very relevant because it pulls the rug under the value of 'information' that goes around in and about organizations. This insight helped me understand organizations as continuous process of sense-making between people. If you want to understand organizations, you therefore have to try to understand how people make sense of things.
I also like Stacey's prose, so much that I use one of his articles in my MasterClass. But reading his books can be tiresome, I think, as he never quite seems to get to the point. But maybe that's just me feeling that.
Does Stacey describe knowledge (!) as something "created between people", really? That would be an awkward take on knowledge... maybe you mean collective sense-making, or something of the sort...
You are right, I mixed up 'knowledge' and learning. See this quote "Learning is then understood as the emerging shifts in the patterning of human communicative interaction and power relating." from
Great piece! I do like Stacey's prose though (sorry), but didn't know of his matrix (phew). What I do like about Stacey is how he describes knowledge as something that is created between people and that is therefore dynamic in nature. I think this is very relevant because it pulls the rug under the value of 'information' that goes around in and about organizations. This insight helped me understand organizations as continuous process of sense-making between people. If you want to understand organizations, you therefore have to try to understand how people make sense of things.
Thanks for commenting, Hartger!
I also like Stacey's prose, so much that I use one of his articles in my MasterClass. But reading his books can be tiresome, I think, as he never quite seems to get to the point. But maybe that's just me feeling that.
Does Stacey describe knowledge (!) as something "created between people", really? That would be an awkward take on knowledge... maybe you mean collective sense-making, or something of the sort...
You are right, I mixed up 'knowledge' and learning. See this quote "Learning is then understood as the emerging shifts in the patterning of human communicative interaction and power relating." from
https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/id/eprint/111/1/100919.pdf
Although the prose can be quite murky, it always inspires me to think differently.