Advances in Strategic Management 1997

by Walsh, James P.; Huff, Anne Sigismund

• ISBN13: 9780762303649
• ISBN10: 0762303646
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-10-01
• Publisher: Jai

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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