Chapter 14: Between Viewing and Transforming: How Reflexivity as Practice Works

The chapter highlights the distinction between reflection (as a sociocognitive capacity and disposition to think about one’s own work) and reflexivity (as a process which questions the ways in which people socially give sense to reality), exploring how organizational reflexivity can work as a practice. A case study example is presented to underpin the way we can detect and put in evidence tacit and implicit knowledge, and different ways of using reflexive practice are discussed in order to develop conditions for a reflexive exercise on such embedded and distributed dimensions.