Organizational Learning

by Michael D. Cohen; Lee S. Sproull

• ISBN13: 9780803970885
• ISBN10: 0803970889
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-11-07
• Publisher: Sage Publications

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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