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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Alternatives Considered But Not Disclosed
    sub title: The Ambiguous Role of PowerPoint in Cross-Project Learning
  title info:
    title: Mit einem Geleitwort von Prof. Dr. Alexander T. Nicolai
  name:
    name part: Schoeneborn, Dennis.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 184 p. online resource.
  abstract: Powerfully driven by the work practices of consulting firms, the presentation software Microsoft PowerPoint is increasingly used on all levels of business and educational communication. Nevertheless, slideware ranks among the least explored media in communication studies. This study investigates the role of PowerPoint in organizational communication, particularly in terms of a functional dilemma between its application for documentation as opposed to presentation purposes. The theoretical part of the analysis combines insights from both organizational communication studies (J. R. Taylor et al.) and social systems theory (N. Luhmann et al.). The empirical analysis shows that PowerPoint documents created for cross-project learning purposes contribute to an invisibilization rather than a visibilization of decision processes and their contingency. In the light of these results, existing efforts to promote knowledge management based on the learning-from-mistakes principle need to be reconsidered with respect to their realization in communicative practice.
  table of contents: Paradigmatic Perspective: Organizations as Communications -- Theoretical Analysis: The (In-)Visibility of Decision Contingency in Organizational Communication -- Methodology: How to Investigate the (In-)Visibility of Decision Contingency in the Practice of Project Documentation -- Empirical Analysis: Exploring the (In-)Visibility of Decision Contingency in the Practice of Project Documentation -- Conclusion and Outlook.
  note: by Dennis Schoeneborn.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Communication
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Communication Studies
  classification: P87-96
  classification: 302.2
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783835055285
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8350-5528-5
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204173105.0
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