Organizational Learning

How do organizations learn, change and adapt? The chapters in this book contribute to the development of organizational learning theory in three ways. They delineate its scope, differentiating it from organizational ecology, choice and individual learning; demonstrate the explanatory power of a learning perspective; and illustrate the application of research tools useful for the study of learning.

Introduction

ix

Michael D. Cohen

Lee S. Sproull

Learning From Samples of One or Fewer

1

(19)

James G. March

Lee S. Sproull

Michal Tamuz

Organizing Work by Adaptation

20

(38)

Edwin Hutchins

Organizational Learning and Communities-of-Practice: Toward a Unified View of Working, Learning, and Innovation

58

(25)

John Seely Brown

Paul Duguid

Organizational Learning Curves: A Method for Investigating Intra-Plant Transfer of Knowledge Acquired Through Learning by Doing

83

(18)

Dennis Epple

Linda Argote

Rukmini Devadas

Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning

101

(23)

James G. March

Organizational Learning: The Contributing Processes and the Literatures

124

(39)

George P. Huber

The Nontraditional Quality of Organizational Learning

163

(12)

Karl E. Weick

Bounded Rationality and Organizational Learning

175

(13)

Herbert A. Simon

Individual Learning and Organizational Routine: Emerging Connections

188

(7)

Michael D. Cohen

Organizational Adaptation and Environmental Selection: Interrelated Processes of Change

195

(8)

Daniel A. Levinthal

Technology Diffusion and Organizational Learning: The Case of Business Computing

203

(27)

Paul Attewell

Organizational Learning and Personnel Turnover

230

(37)

Kathleen Carley

An Organizational Learning Model of Convergence and Reorientation

267

(35)

Theresa K. Lant

Stephen J. Mezias

Executive Succession and Organization Outcomes in Turbulent Environments: An Organization Learning Approach

302

(28)

Beverly Virany

Michael L. Tushman

Elaine Romanelli

Collective Mind in Organizations: Heedful Interrelating on Flight Decks

330

(29)

Karl E. Weick

Karlene H. Roberts

Technological Change and the Management of Architectural Knowledge

359

(17)

Rebecca M. Henderson

Organizational Evolution and the Social Ecology of Jobs

376

(27)

Anne S. Miner

Organizational Routines Are Stored as Procedural Memory: Evidence From a Laboratory Study

403

(27)

Michael D. Cohen

Paul Bacdayan

Culture and Organizational Learning

430

(30)

Scott D. N. Cook

Dvora Yanow

Organizing for Continuous Improvement: Evolutionary Theory Meets the Quality Revolution

460

(24)

Sidney G. Winter

Learning by Knowledge-Intensive Firms

484

(32)

William H. Starbuck

Organizational Learning

516

(25)

Barbara Levitt

James G. March

Learning Through Failure: The Strategy of Small Losses

541

(38)

Sim B Sitkin

Index

579

(24)

About the Editors

603

(2)

About the Contributors

605

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