Inter-professional knowing as collective authorship practice
ISSN: 0969-6474
Article publication date: 4 February 2019
Issue publication date: 4 February 2019
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to understand how members of an organization with different backgrounds form an inter-professional knowing (IPK) from a collective authorship practice (CAP).
Design/methodology/approach
This is a qualitative research drawn on an ethnomethodological approach on the committee responsible for the public policies of the waterfront for the city of João Pessoa, Brazil. The researchers spent one year observing the committee’s meetings.
Findings
The main result points out that IPK is a singular practice that emerges from the organization members’ different backgrounds in a collective authorship process.
Practical implications
It may be possible to adopt the notion of CAP as a methodology to address complex organizational problems.
Originality/value
This paper presents the notion of IPK from a CAP based on an ethnomethodological approach.
Keywords
Citation
Bispo, M.d.S. and Cavalcante, E.D.C. (2019), "Inter-professional knowing as collective authorship practice", The Learning Organization, Vol. 26 No. 2, pp. 205-218. https://doi.org/10.1108/TLO-04-2018-0062
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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