Mistaken identity: never mind

Abstract

Presents a social constructionist account of organising processes in which the focus is on joint (not individual) acts, on action as any human activity and its artifacts ‐ including talk, and on making “people and worlds”. The authors show that actions, or more widely, projects, can be co‐ordinated without the need for shared understanding, shared vision, common projects and the like; indeed, they argue that shared understanding is a dangerous illusion. In its place they offer a view of organising processes and their development that focuses on the present‐future rather than the past and problems, to acting from within rather than commenting from without, and the acceptance of many projects (not the dominance of one).

Citation

Bass, A. and Hosking, D. (1998), "Mistaken identity: never mind", Career Development International, Vol. 3 No. 7, pp. 277-282. https://doi.org/10.1108/13620439810240700