This edited volume approaches knowledge management from practice theoretical perspectives and explores practices of knowing and learning in diverse social and institutional contexts. Practices denote what people really do and they constitute an analytical category that mediates between social structures and situated actions. The six contributions of this volume carefully analyse knowledge management practices by focusing on the use of knowledge management tools with regard to unintended as well as intended effects. The authors describe sociomaterial and sociocultural practices in diverse organizational settings such as laboratories, sheltered workshops, intensive care, public service, engineering companies and retail stores, and elaborate on possible implications for knowledge management, that is, for how knowledge and learning may be enhanced within organisations.

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