The organizational complexity is articulated in a “patchwork” of material, social, mental and cultural elements situated in time and space of a context. An organization is not like something taken for granted, but it is an articulated fusion of interacting elements. In order to understand and to study an organization, it is impossible to consider only the decision makers, the resources and the tasks of the actors; in order to inquire the real nature of the organizing process, we have to trace the process of construction of knowledge: knowing-in-action inside the context. According to this idea, knowledge is not a separated data, it is not an organization variable that can be found in workers minds, in databases or in the organizational manuals; knowledge is a mediated process that constructs itself in practice and in situated action. A Court, like every human organization, appears as an interconnected complex field of situated knowledge. On the bases of ethnographic research developed at the Labour Court of Bologna, this paper means to reflect about the process of creation and sharing of knowledge in the legal context. The process of “knowing” in a Court is based on the contextual fusion of communities of practices, technologies, professions, bodies, written text, context, infrastructures (as law and civil procedure), discursive practices, experiences, know-how, situated actions and theoretical acquaintances. Knowledge is everyday constructed in an action net of human and non-human interacting actors. Finally the main aim of this paper is to analyse, from an organizational point of view, the role of knowledge in legal context. This research would like to represent an “humus” for debate about the role of knowledge in an high-professional context like a Court of Justice.

Verzelloni, L. (2007). The Role of Knowledge in Legal Context: The Case of the Court of Bologna. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM) (pp.1071-1076). GBR : Academic Conferences Limited.

The Role of Knowledge in Legal Context: The Case of the Court of Bologna

Verzelloni L
2007

Abstract

The organizational complexity is articulated in a “patchwork” of material, social, mental and cultural elements situated in time and space of a context. An organization is not like something taken for granted, but it is an articulated fusion of interacting elements. In order to understand and to study an organization, it is impossible to consider only the decision makers, the resources and the tasks of the actors; in order to inquire the real nature of the organizing process, we have to trace the process of construction of knowledge: knowing-in-action inside the context. According to this idea, knowledge is not a separated data, it is not an organization variable that can be found in workers minds, in databases or in the organizational manuals; knowledge is a mediated process that constructs itself in practice and in situated action. A Court, like every human organization, appears as an interconnected complex field of situated knowledge. On the bases of ethnographic research developed at the Labour Court of Bologna, this paper means to reflect about the process of creation and sharing of knowledge in the legal context. The process of “knowing” in a Court is based on the contextual fusion of communities of practices, technologies, professions, bodies, written text, context, infrastructures (as law and civil procedure), discursive practices, experiences, know-how, situated actions and theoretical acquaintances. Knowledge is everyday constructed in an action net of human and non-human interacting actors. Finally the main aim of this paper is to analyse, from an organizational point of view, the role of knowledge in legal context. This research would like to represent an “humus” for debate about the role of knowledge in an high-professional context like a Court of Justice.
paper
knowing-in-practice; action net; labour Courts
English
8th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM)
06-07.09.2007
Remenyi D
Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM)
9781622765249
2007
1071
1076
none
Verzelloni, L. (2007). The Role of Knowledge in Legal Context: The Case of the Court of Bologna. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM) (pp.1071-1076). GBR : Academic Conferences Limited.
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