Journal of Workplace Learning: Volume 35 Issue 3

Guest editorial: Organizational learning, collaboration and distributed work in times of epistemic ambiguity

Dmitrijs Kravčenko, Anja Overgaard Thomassen

When sensemaking remains local: implications for distributed sensemaking in reform implementation

Cathrine Filstad, Trude Høgvold Olsen, Anja Overgaard Thomassen

This paper aims to contribute to the literature on distributed sensemaking by studying how the police establish and develop their new position as police contacts during the police…

Towards processual understanding of knowledge boundaries: an ethnographic examination of how professionals (mis-)align, compete, and collaborate

Dmitrijs Kravčenko

Extant literature tends to consider knowledge boundaries as a necessary property of interdisciplinary work. Knowledge boundaries are, thus, reified and treated as something to be…

Renewing the object of work as a trigger for inter-organizational learning

Marta Piria, Mara Gorli, Giuseppe Scaratti

The study refers to a health-care organization engaged in adopting “home health care” as a new object of activity. This study aims to explore how the reconfiguration of the object…

Trust disruption and preservation in the Covid-19 work from home context

Niki Panteli, Jason R.C. Nurse, Emily Collins, Nikki Williams

The paper posits that the enforced work from home (WFH) arrangement due to Covid-19 provides a unique setting for the study of trust in changing contexts. The purpose of this…