TY - BOOK

T1 - Alternatives considered but not disclosed

T2 - The ambiguous role of powerpoint in cross-project learning

AU - Schoeneborn, Dennis

N1 - Zugl.: Weimar, Bauhaus-Univ., Diss., 2007

PY - 2008/1/1

Y1 - 2008/1/1

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Management studies

KW - knowledge management

KW - learning

KW - organization

KW - organizational communication

KW - presentation software

KW - slideware

KW - social systems theory

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/b6df614a-bf7e-3543-b569-b8701700aaaa/

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-8350-5528-5

DO - 10.1007/978-3-8350-5528-5

M3 - Monographs

AN - SCOPUS:84895347094

SN - 978-3-8350-7011-0

T3 - VS research

BT - Alternatives considered but not disclosed

PB - VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

CY - Wiesbaden

ER -