Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management

For this three-volume set the editors have selected many of the most influential articles published since 1984 on the topics of knowledge management and the improvement of organizational learning, developmental learning by individual organizations and the development of populations of organizations. Many of the articles in Volume I are trailblazers in the field of knowledge management; they discuss ways of fostering learning, managing knowledge and extracting economic benefits from knowledge. Volume II investigates how individual organizations learn: topics covered include cognitive versus behavioural learning, interpretation, incremental change and reorientation, and learning from success and failure. Volume III follows the development of the academic study of populations of organizations: it explores both behavioural and cognitive learning processes from the point of view of industries, geographic neighbourhoods and networks. New, authoritative introductions to each volume by the editors offer a comprehensive overview and informative discussion of the issues.

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Contents: Volume I: Managing Learning and Knowledge Acknowledgements Introduction Making Learning and Knowledge Management More Effective Samuel Holloway and William H. Starbuck PART I ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING 1. Paul C. Nystrom and William H. Starbuck (1984), ‘To Avoid Organizational Crises, Unlearn’ 2. J.-C. Spender (1996), ‘Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Memory: Three Concepts in Search of a Theory’ 3. James B. Thomas, Stephanie Watts Sussman and John C. Henderson (2001), ‘Understanding “Strategic Learning”: Linking Organizational Learning, Knowledge Management, and Sensemaking’ PART II LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS 4. Michael E. McGill, John W. Slocum, Jr. and David Lei (1992), ‘Management Practices in Learning Organizations’ 5. Bernard L. Simonin (1997), ‘The Importance of Collaborative Know-How: An Empirical Test of the Learning Organization’ 6. Eric W.K. Tsang (1997), ‘Organizational Learning and the Learning Organization: A Dichotomy Between Descriptive and Prescriptive Research’ PART III KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER 7. Linda Argote, Sara L. Beckman and Dennis Epple (1990), ‘The Persistence and Transfer of Learning in Industrial Settings’ 8. Eric D. Darr, Linda Argote and Dennis Epple (1995), ‘The Acquisition, Transfer, and Depreciation of Knowledge in Service Organizations: Productivity in Franchises’ 9. Linda Argote and Paul Ingram (2000), ‘Knowledge Transfer: A Basis for Competitive Advantage in Firms’ 10. G.P. Huber (2001), ‘Transfer of Knowledge in Knowledge Management Systems: Unexplored Issues and Suggested Studies’ PART IV GENERAL PERSPECTIVES ON KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 11. Rod Coombs and Richard Hull (1998), ‘“Knowledge Management Practices” and Path-Dependency in Innovation’ 12. Maryam Alavi and Dorothy E. Leidner (2001), ‘Review: Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Systems: Conceptual Foundations and Research Issues’ 13. Michael Earl (2001), ‘Knowledge Management Strategies: Toward a Taxonomy’ 14. Varun Grover and Thomas H. Davenport (2001), ‘General Perspectives on Knowledge Management: Fostering a Research Agenda’ 15. Andrew Hargadon and Angelo Fanelli (2002), ‘Action and Possibility: Reconciling Dual Perspectives of Knowledge in Organizations’ 16. Ulrike Schultze and Dorothy E. Leidner (2002), ‘Studying Knowledge Management in Information Systems Research: Discourses and Theoretical Assumptions’ PART V CULTURAL ISSUES IN KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT 17. Andrew C. Inkpen and Adva Dinur (1998), ‘Knowledge Management Processes and International Joint Ventures’ 18. David W. De Long and Liam Fahey (2000), ‘Diagnosing Cultural Barriers to Knowledge Management’ 19. Molly McLure Wasko and Samer Faraj (2005), ‘Why Should I Share? Examining Social Capital and Knowledge Contribution in Electronic Networks of Practice’ PART VI MANAGEMENT OF KNOWLEDGE CREATION 20. Ravindranath Madhavan and Rajiv Grover (1998), ‘From Embedded Knowledge to Embodied Knowledge: New Product Development as Knowledge Management’ 21. Pier Paolo Saviotti (1998), ‘On the Dynamics of Appropriability, of Tacit and of Codified Knowledge’ 22. Heeseok Lee and Byounggu Choi (2003), ‘Knowledge Management Enablers, Processes, and Organizational Performance: An Integrative View and Empirical Examination’ PART VII KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND OUTCOMES 23. Irma Becerra-Fernandez and Rajiv Sabherwal (2001), ‘Organizational Knowledge Management: A Contingency Perspective’ 24. Andrew H. Gold, Arvind Malhotra and Albert H. Segars (2001), ‘Knowledge Management: An Organizational Capabilities Perspective’ 25. Peter J. Sher and Vivid C. Lee (2004), ‘Information Technology as a Facilitator for Enhancing Dynamic Capabilities through Knowledge Management’ 26. Hüseyin S. Tanriverdi (2005), ‘Information Technology Relatedness, Knowledge Management Capability, and Performance of Multibusiness Firms’ Name Index Volume II: Learning by Organizations Acknowledgements Introduction Learning by Individual Organizations Peter S. Whalen and William H. Starbuck PART I CENTRAL ISSUES IN ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING 1. Mark Easterby-Smith, Mary Crossan and Davide Nicolini (2000), ‘Organizational Learning: Debates Past, Present and Future’ 2. Anders Örtenblad (2002), ‘Organizational Learning: A Radical Perspective’ PART II WHAT MAKES LEARNING ORGANIZATIONAL? 3. Mark Dodgson (1993), ‘Organizational Learning: A Review of Some Literatures’ 4. William H. Starbuck (1992), ‘Learning by Knowledge-Intensive Firms’ 5. Karl E. Weick and Karlene H. Roberts (1993), ‘Collective Mind in Organizations: Heedful Interrelating on Flight Decks’ 6. Ikujiro Nonaka (1994), ‘A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation’ 7. Robert M. Grant (1996), ‘Prospering in Dynamically-competitive Environments: Organizational Capability as Knowledge Integration’ 8. Mary M. Crossan, Henry W. Lane and Roderick E. White (1999), ‘An Organizational Learning Framework: From Intuition to Institution’ PART III COGNITIVE VERSUS BEHAVIORAL LEARNING 9. C. Marlene Fiol and Marjorie A. Lyles (1985), ‘Organizational Learning’ 10. Frédéric Leroy and Bernard Ramanantsoa (1997), ‘The Cognitive and Behavioural Dimensions of Organizational Learning in a Merger: An Empirical Study’ PART IV ATTENTION AND INTERPRETATION 11. Richard L. Daft and Karl E. Weick (1984), ‘Toward a Model of Organizations as Interpretation Systems’ 12. Wesley M. Cohen and Daniel A. Levinthal (1990), ‘Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation’ 13. Jane E. Dutton and Janet M. Dukerich (1991), ‘Keeping an Eye on the Mirror: Image and Identity in Organizational Adaptation’ 14. James M. Sinkula (1994), ‘Market Information Processing and Organizational Learning’ PART V MIXING INCREMENTAL CHANGE WITH REORIENTATION 15. Linda Argote and Dennis Epple (1990), ‘Learning Curves in Manufacturing’ 16. James G. March (1991), ‘Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning’ 17. Theresa K. Lant and Stephen J. Mezias (1992), ‘An Organizational Learning Model of Convergence and Reorientation’ 18. Shona L. Brown and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt (1997), ‘The Art of Continuous Change: Linking Complexity Theory and Time-paced Evolution in Relentlessly Shifting Organizations’ 19. Zi-Lin He and Poh-Kam Wong (2004), ‘Exploration vs. Exploitation: An Empirical Test of the Ambidexterity Hypothesis’ PART VI LEARNING FROM SUCCESS AND FAILURE 20. Sim B. Sitkin (1992), ‘Learning through Failure: The Strategy of Small Losses’ 21. Danny Miller (1993), ‘The Architecture of Simplicity’ 22. William H. Starbuck (1996), ‘Unlearning Ineffective or Obsolete Technologies’ 23. Jerker Denrell and James G. March (2001), ‘Adaptation as Information Restriction: The Hot Stove Effect’ 24. Philippe Baumard and William H. Starbuck (2005), ‘Learning from Failures: Why It May Not Happen’ 25. Mark D. Cannon and Amy C. Edmondson (2005), ‘Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently): How Great Organizations Put Failure to Work to Innovate and Improve’ Name Index Volume III: Learning by Populations of Organizations Acknowledgements Introduction Learning by Organizational Populations Suzanne G. Tilleman and William H. Starbuck PART I BEHAVIORAL LEARNING BY INDUSTRIES 1. Glenn R. Carroll and Michael T. Hannan (1989), ‘Density Dependence in the Evolution of Populations of Newspaper Organizations’ 2. Joel A.C. Baum and Paul Ingram (1998), ‘Survival-Enhancing Learning in the Manhattan Hotel Industry, 1898–1980’ 3. Anne S. Miner, Ji-Yub (Jay) Kim, Ingo W. Holzinger and Pamela Haunschild (1999), ‘Fruits of Failure: Organizational Failure and Population-level Learning’ 4. William P. Barnett and Olav Sorenson (2002), ‘The Red Queen in Organizational Creation and Development’ PART II BEHAVIORAL LEARNING BY GEOGRAPHIC NEIGHBORHOODS 5. Michael T. Hannan, Glenn R. Carroll, Elizabeth A. Dundon and John Charles Torres (1995), ‘Organizational Evolution in a Multinational Context: Entries of Automobile Manufacturers in Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy’ 6. Dieter Ernst and Linsu Kim (2002), ‘Global Production Networks, Knowledge Diffusion, and Local Capability Formation’ 7. Päivi Oinas and Edward J. Malecki (2002), ‘The Evolution of Technologies in Time and Space: From National and Regional to Spatial Innovation Systems’ PART III BEHAVIORAL LEARNING BY NETWORKS 8. Ravi S. Achrol (1991), ‘Evolution of the Marketing Organization: New Forms for Turbulent Environments’ 9. Jörg Sydow and Arnold Windeler (1998), ‘Organizing and Evaluating Interfirm Networks: A Structurationist Perspective on Network Processes and Effectiveness’ 10. Sidney G. Winter and Gabriel Szulanski (2001), ‘Replication as Strategy’ 11. Andrew Currah and Neil Wrigley (2004), ‘Networks of Organizational Learning and Adaptation in Retail TNCs’ PART IV COGNITIVE LEARNING BY INDUSTRIES 12. Paul Attewell (1992), ‘Technology Diffusion and Organizational Learning: The Case of Business Computing’ 13. Michael L. Tushman and Lori Rosenkopf (1992), ‘Organizational Determinants of Technological Change: Toward a Sociology of Technological Evolution’ 14. Michael Carney and Eric Gedajlovic (2002), ‘The Co-evolution of Institutional Environments and Organizational Strategies: The Rise of Family Business Groups in the ASEAN Region’ 15. Michael G. Jacobides (2005), ‘Industry Change through Vertical Disintegration: How and Why Markets Emerged in Mortgage Banking’ PART V COGNITIVE LEARNING BY GEOGRAPHIC NEIGHBORHOODS 16. Ray Hudson (1999), ‘“The Learning Economy, the Learning Firm and the Learning Region”: A Sympathetic Critique of the Limits to Learning’ 17. Clive Lawson and Edward Lorenz (1999), ‘Collective Learning, Tacit Knowledge and Regional Innovative Capacity’ 18. Peter Maskell and Anders Malmberg (1999), ‘Localised Learning and Industrial Competitiveness’ 19. Jeremy R.L. Howells (2002), ‘Tacit Knowledge, Innovation and Economic Geography’ 20. Klaus Uhlenbruck, Klaus E. Meyer and Michael A. Hitt (2003), ‘Organizational Transformation in Transition Economies: Resource-based and Organizational Learning Perspectives’ PART VI COGNITIVE LEARNING BY NETWORKS 21. Arvind Parkhe (1991), ‘Interfirm Diversity, Organizational Learning, and Longevity in Global Strategic Alliances’ 22. Andrew C. Inkpen and Mary M. Crossan (1995), ‘Believing is Seeing: Joint Ventures and Organization Learning’ 23. Julia Porter Liebeskind, Amalya Lumerman Oliver, Lynne Zucker and Marilynn Brewer (1996), ‘Social Networks, Learning, and Flexibility: Sourcing Scientific Knowledge in New Biotechnology Firms’ 24. Bruce Kogut (2000), ‘The Network as Knowledge: Generative Rules and the Emergence of Structure’ 25. John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid (2001), ‘Knowledge and Organization: A Social-Practice Perspective’ Name Index