--- abstract: 'Changing views of the nature of human knowledge change how we design organizations, facilities, and technology to promote learning: Learning is not transfer; using a plan is not executing a program; explanation is not reciting rules from memory. Such rationalist views of knowledge inhibit change and stifle innovate uses of technology. Representations of work (plans, policies, procedures) and their meaning develop in work itself. Representations guide, but do not strictly control human behavior. Every perception and action involves new, nonlinguistic conceptualizations that reground organizational goals and values. This essay explores how the epistemology of situated cognition guides business redesign.' altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Clancey given: William J. honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1995 date_type: published datestamp: 1998-06-16 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/03/22 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Bagnara given: S. honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: C. given: Zuccermaglio honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Stucky given: S honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 322 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/322/1/137.htm full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'practice, anthropology, knowledge level, organizational learning, representations, organizational change, soci-technical systems, corporate memory, situated cognition' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:49 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: 16-46 pubdom: FALSE publication: Organizational Learning and Technological Change publisher: 'Springer, Berlin' refereed: FALSE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:26:36 subjects: - comp-sci-art-intel - phil-epist - phil-metaphys - soc-psy succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'Practice cannot be reduced to theory: Knowledge, representations, and change in the workplace.' type: bookchapter userid: 26 volume: ~