Title:
Knowledge, learning, and routines
Series:
Critical studies in economic institutions ; 4
Publication Information:
Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2003
Physical Description:
2v.
ISBN:
9781840648058
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Summary
Summary
This comprehensive two-volume collection draws together the key contributions - both theoretical and empirical - from economics and management literature on human and organisational knowledge, learning and routine behaviours.
Volume I discusses conceptions of knowledge and the problems of organisational and technological learning. Volume II contains both theoretical and applied research on organisational routines.
Author Notes
Edited by Nathalie Lazaric, Research Professor, CNRS, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis and GREDEG - UMR 7321, France and Edward Lorenz, GREDEG/CNRS, France
Table of Contents
Vol. 1 Acknowledgements | p. ix |
Introduction | p. xiii |
Part I Knowledge | |
A The Computational Tradition | |
1. 'Information Processing in Computer and Man', American Scientist, 52 (3), September, 281-300 (1964) | p. 5 |
2. 'A Framework for Induction', in Induction: Processes of Inference, Learning, and Discovery, Chapter 1, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1-28, references (1986) | p. 25 |
B Knowledge as Image | |
3. 'Introduction', in The Image, Chapter 1, University of Michigan Press, 3-18 (1956) | p. 57 |
4. 'Information, Knowledge, Vision and Theories of the Firm', Industrial and Corporate Change, 3 (3), 713-57 (1994) | p. 73 |
C The Debate over Tacit Knowledge | |
5. 'The Logic of Tacit Inference, 1964', in Marjorie Grene (ed.), Knowing and Being: Essays by Michael Polanyi, Chapter 10, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 138-58 (1969) | p. 121 |
6. 'Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons', American Journal of Sociology, 101 (1), July, 44-99 (1995) | p. 142 |
7. 'The Explicit Economics of Knowledge Codification and Tacitness', Industrial and Corporate Change, 9 (2), June, 211-53 (2000) | p. 198 |
8. 'A Cognitive Model of Innovation', Research Policy, 27, 689-709 (1998) | p. 241 |
D Knowledge in Context | |
9. 'Knowledge', in Learning and Innovation in Organizations and Economies, Chapter 6, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 113-31, references (2000) | p. 265 |
10. 'The Nature of Sensemaking', in Sensemaking in Organizations, Chapter 1, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 1-16, references (1995) | p. 286 |
11. 'Cultural Cognition', in Cognition in the Wild, Chapter 9, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 353-74, references (1995) | p. 305 |
E Distributed Knowledge and the Economy | |
12. 'Dispersed Knowledge and Central Planning', excerpt from 'New Knowledge, Dispersed Information and Central Planning', in Knowledge: Its Creation, Distribution, and Economic Significance, Volume 3: The Economics of Information and Human Capital, Chapter 6, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 185-204 (1984) | p. 331 |
13. 'The Problem with Dispersed Knowledge: Firms in Theory and Practice', Kyklos, 46 (4), 569-87 (1993) | p. 351 |
Part II Learning | |
A Mathematical and Computational Models of Learning | |
14. 'Organizational Learning and Personnel Turnover', Organization Science, 3 (1), February, 20-46 (1992) | p. 375 |
15. 'Coordination and Organizational Learning in the Firm', Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2, 313-26 (1992) | p. 402 |
16. 'Organizational Learning, Problem Solving and the Division of Labour', in Herbert Simon, Massimo Egidi, Robin Marris and Riccardo Viale (eds), Economics, Bounded Rationality and the Cognitive Revolution, Chapter 8, Aldershot, UK: Edward Elgar, 148-73 (1992) | p. 416 |
B Learning, Practice and Communities | |
17. 'Organizing Knowledge', California Management Review, 40 (3), Spring, 90-111 (1998) | p. 445 |
18. 'Learning', in Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity, Chapter 3, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 86-102, 289-90, references (1998) | p. 467 |
C Learning and Capabilities in Firms and the Economy | |
19. 'The Learning Economy', Journal of Industry Studies, 1 (2), December, 23-42 (1994) | p. 489 |
20. 'Capabilities', in Knowledge, Institutions and Evolution in Economics, Chapter 4, London and New York: Routledge, 49-68, references (1999) | p. 509 |
21. 'The Myopia of Learning', Strategic Management Journal, 14, Special Issue, Winter, 95-112 (1993) | p. 530 |
22. 'How Organizations Learn and Unlearn', in Paul C. Nystrom and William H. Starbuck (eds), Handbook of Organizational Design, Volume 1: Adapting Organizations to Their Environments, Chapter 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3-27 (1981) | p. 548 |
D Technological Learning | |
23. 'Learning By Using', in Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics, Chapter 6, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 120-40 (1982) | p. 575 |
24. 'Innovation and Learning: The Two Faces of R & D', Economic Journal, 99 (397), September, 569-96 (1989) | p. 596 |
25. '2. A Markov Model of Factor Substitution', excerpt from 'Firm and Industry Response to Changed Market Conditions', in An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change, Chapter 7, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 175-92, references (1982) | p. 624 |
26. 'Learning, Innovation and Economic Growth: A Long-run Model of Industrial Dynamics', Industrial and Corporate Change, 3 (1), 199-223 (1994) | p. 643 |
Name Index | p. 669 |
Vol. 2 Acknowledgements | p. vii |
An introduction the editors to both volumes appears in Volume I | |
A The Notion of Routine Defined and Debated | |
1. 'Organizational Capabilities and Behavior', in An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change, Chapter 5, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 96-136, references (1982) | p. 3 |
2. 'Routines and Other Recurring Action Patterns of Organizations: Contemporary Research Issues', Industrial and Corporate Change, 5 (3), 653-98 (1996) | p. 45 |
3. 'Society and Economy as Reproduced Interdependencies', in Economics and Reality, Chapter 12, London and New York: Routledge, 157-73, 317-18, references (1997) | p. 91 |
4. 'The Role of Routines, Rules and Habits in Collective Learning: Some Epistemological and Ontological Considerations', European Journal of Economic and Social Systems, 14 (2), 157-71 (2000) | p. 112 |
5. 'Types of Rules, Interpretation and Collective Dynamics: Reflections on the Introduction of a Salary Rule in a Maintenance Workshop', Industrial and Corporate Change, 5 (3), 699-721 (1996) | p. 127 |
B Routines in Their Cognitive Dimension | |
6. 'Organizational Routines Are Stored as Procedural Memory: Evidence from a Laboratory Study', Organization Science, 5 (4), November, 554-68 (1994) | p. 153 |
7. 'Organizational Routines as Grammars of Action', Administrative Science Quarterly, 39, September, 484-510 (1994) | p. 168 |
8. 'Models of Cognition, the Contextualisation of Knowledge and Organisational Theory', Journal of Management and Governance, 5 (3-4), 307-30 (2001) | p. 195 |
C Routines in Their Strategic and Political Dimensions | |
9. 'Learning how to Govern and Learning how to Solve Problems: On the Co-Evolution of Competences, Conflicts and Organizational Routines', in Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Peter Hagstrom and Orjan Solvell (eds), The Dynamic Firm: The Role of Technology, Strategy, Organization, and Regions, Chapter 6, Oxford University Press, 103-33 (1998) | p. 221 |
10. 'Incentives, Routines, and Self-Command', Industrial and Corporate Change, 1 (3), 397-425 (1992) | p. 252 |
11. 'Organisational Learning and the Organisational Link: The Problem of Conflict, Political Equilibrium and Truce', European Journal of Economic and Social Systems, 14 (2), 173-90 (2000) | p. 281 |
12. 'Four Rs of Profitability: Rents, Resources, Routines, and Replication', in Cynthia A. Montgomery (ed.), Resource-Based and Evolutionary Theories of the Firm: Towards a Synthesis, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 147-78 (1995) | p. 299 |
D Routines Observed in the Field | |
13. 'Talking about Routines in the Field: The Emergence of Organizational Capabilities in a New Cellular Phone Network Company', in Giovanni Dosi, Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter (eds), The Nature and Dynamics of Organizational Capabilities, Chapter 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 27-50 (2000) | p. 333 |
14. 'Organizational Routines as a Source of Continuous Change', Organization Science, 11 (6), November-December, 611-29 (2000) | p. 357 |
15. 'Learning and Routines in High-Tech SMEs: Analyzing Rich Case Study Material', Journal of Economic Issues, XXX (2), June, 591-7 (1996) | p. 376 |
16. 'Habitual Routines in Task-Performing Groups', Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 47 (1), October, 65-97 (1990) | p. 383 |
Name Index | p. 417 |