Learning and Innovation in Organizations and Economies

by Nooteboom, Bart

• ISBN13: 9780199240999
• ISBN10: 019924099X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-12-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book explores a range of theories used to explain the phenomenon of innovation and learning in individual thought, organizations, industries, and economies. The author draws on insights and perspectives from management and organization studies, economics, and cognitive science, bringing these together in a unifying framework for an analysis of innovation systems and the management of learning.

Author Biography

Bart Nooteboom is Professor of Organization in the Faculty of Management and Organization, Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Previous academic positions have included Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Wassenaar, the Netherlands (1998/99); Scientific Director of the Research Institute and Ph.D. School of the faculties of Management and Organization, Economics and Spatial Sciences at Groningen University (1994-1998); and Professor of Industrial Organization at Groningen University. Between 1991 and 1994 he was a member of a committee advising the Minister of Economic Affairs on technology policy. He has also worked for Shell International in both London and The Hague, and for the Research Institute for Small Business in the Netherlands. His current research is on the relation between innovation systems and organizational learning, and attempts to integrate economic issues of innovation with a constructivist perspective from sociology.

Table of Contents

Purpose and Scope	1	(35)
Purpose and Questions	1	(13)
Perspectives	14	(4)
Disciplines	18	(8)
Methodology	26	(9)
PART I BUILDING-BLOCKS
Management and Organization	35	(17)
Themes	35	(8)
Organizational Learning	43	(6)
Conclusion	49	(3)
Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Competence	52	(23)
Learning?	52	(2)
Mainstream Economics	54	(8)
Austrian and Schumpeterian Economics	62	(4)
The Resource---Competence View	66	(5)
Competence, Knowledge, and Learning	71	(2)
Conclusion	73	(2)
Evolution	75	(16)
Evolutionary Theory	75	(6)
Pitfalls	81	(8)
Conclusion	89	(2)
Institutions	91	(22)
Institutions and Organizations	91	(5)
How Do They Work?	96	(5)
Institutional Economics	101	(10)
Conclusion	111	(2)
Knowledge	113	(19)
Motivation	113	(1)
The Representational---Computational view	114	(6)
Situated Action	120	(5)
Scripts	125	(5)
Conclusion	130	(2)
Language	132	(19)
Motivation	132	(1)
Theory of Language	133	(5)
Meaning Change	138	(4)
Hermeneutic Circle	142	(5)
Conclusion	147	(4)
PART II CONSTRUCTION
A Theory of Interactive Learning	151	(19)
Product Differentiation	151	(2)
A Logic of Learning by Interaction	153	(6)
Governance	159	(10)
Conclusion	169	(1)
A Heuristic of Discovery	170	(20)
Principles	170	(13)
A Cycle of Discovery	183	(5)
Conclusion	188	(2)
An Elaboration with Scripts	190	(19)
Introduction	190	(8)
Innovation	198	(3)
The Heuristic of Discovery	201	(7)
Conclusion	208	(1)
Integration and Disintegration	209	(22)
A Cycle of (Dis)integration	209	(10)
Further Determinants	219	(4)
The Computer Industry	223	(3)
Conclusion	226	(5)
PART III APPLICATION
Innovation Systems	231	(21)
Definition and Focus	231	(4)
Cycles	235	(4)
Institutions and Innovation Systems	239	(11)
Conclusion	250	(2)
Organizational Learning	252	(31)
Comparisons	252	(5)
Entrepreneurship	257	(4)
Organizing for Exploitation and Exploration	261	(8)
Development and Leadership	269	(4)
Management of Learning	273	(7)
Conclusion	280	(3)
Conclusions and Further Research	283	(20)
Answers	283	(12)
Empirical Testing	295	(8)
Summary	303	(10)
Purpose and Scope	303	(1)
Learning and Innovation	304	(1)
Evolution and Institutions	305	(1)
Situated Action	306	(1)
Hermeneutic Circle	307	(1)
A Heuristic of Discovery	308	(2)
A Cycle of (Dis)integration	310	(1)
Innovation Systems	310	(1)
Management of Learning	311	(2)
Bibliography	313	(18)
Index	331