Advances in Strategic Management 1997

The emphasis in this work is on memory in organizations, organizational improvisation, strategies of learning, the nuances of learning and integrating strategy and organizational learning. The volume includes a chapter on social learning and transaction cost economics.

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

vii

(4)

INTRODUCTION

xi

James P. Walsh

Anne S. Huff

TOWARD A PROCESS-BASED THEORY OF ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN: CAN ORGANIZATIONS BE DESIGNED AROUND VALUE CHAINS AND NETWORKS?

1

(52)

Daniel R. Denison

COMMENTARY: CREATING KNOWLEDGE IN THE PROCESS ORGANIZATION

45

(8)

Ikujiro Nonaka

Kazuo Ichijo

A PHRASEOLOGIC VIEW OF ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING

53

(28)

Georg von Krogh

Johan Roos

COMMENTARY: WHAT COULD PHRASES DO?

75

(6)

Anjali Sastry

ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN KNOW-HOW, KNOW-WHAT, AND KNOW-WHY

81

(30)

Raghu Garud

COMMENTARY: THE IMPORTANCE OF KNOW-WHERE AND KNOW-WHEN

103

(8)

Charlene Nichols-Nixon

COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN ORGANIZATIONS

111

(44)

Andrea Casey

COMMENTARY: COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN ORGANIZATIONS

147

(8)

Mary Ann Glynn

MAKING SENSE OF IMPROVISATION

155

(38)

Mary Crossan

Marc Sorrenti

COMMENTARY: JAZZING UP THE THEORY OF ORGANIZATIONAL IMPROVISATION

181

(12)

Mary Jo Hatch

SOCIAL LEARNING AND THE FUNDAMENTAL PARADOX OF TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS

193

(36)

Margaret Peteraf

Mark Shanley

COMMENTARY: SOCIAL LEARNING AND TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS

223

(6)

Edward A. Snyder

STRATEGIES OF LEARNING AND INDUSTRY STRUCTURE: THE EVOLUTION OF NETWORKS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

229

(32)

Kenneth W. Koput

Laurel Smith-Doerr

Walter W. Powell

COMMENTARY: RECIPES FOR ALLIANCE

255

(6)

Gail James

COMPETITION, IMITATION, AND INNOVATION: AN ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING APPROACH

261

(38)

Stephen J. Mezias

Alan B. Eisner

COMMENTARY: MODELING STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR

295

(4)

James O. Huff

STRATEGIC SENSE-MAKING: LEARNING THROUGH SCANNING, INTERPRETATION, ACTION, AND PERFORMANCE

299

(38)

James B. Thomas

Dennis A. Gioia

David J. Ketchen, Jr.

COMMENTARY: THE NUANCES OF LEARNING

331

(6)

Kathleen M. Sutcliffe

INTEGRATING STRATEGY AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING: A THEORY OF ACTION PERSPECTIVE

337

David R. Schwandt

COMMENTARY: THE APPLICABILITY OF PARSONIAN THEORY TO MANAGEMENT

361

Paula Phillips Carson

Kerry D. Carson

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