Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management

The fully revised and updated version of this successful Handbook is welcomed by management scholars world-wide. By bringing together the latest approaches from the leading experts in organizational learning & knowledge management the volume provides a unique and valuable overview of current thinking about how organizations accumulate 'knowledge' and learn from experience. Key areas of update in the new edition are: Resource based view of the firm Capability management Global management Organizational culture Mergers & acquisitions Strategic management Leadership

Table of Contents:
1 The Evolving Field of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management 1 MARK EASTERBY-SMITH AND MARJORIE A. LYLES PART I DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES. 2 Organizational Learning Viewed from a Social Learning Perspective 23 ULRIK BRANDI AND BENTE ELKJAER 3 Organizational Learning: The Sociology of Practice 43 SILVIA GHERARDI 4 Psychological Perspectives in Organizational Learning: A Four-Quadrant Approach 67 HELEN SHIPTON AND ROBERT DEFILLIPPI 5 Information Technology and the Possibilities for Knowledge Sharing 83 NIALL HAYES 6 Knowledge Management: Process, Practice and Web 2.0 105 MARYAM ALAVI AND JAMES S. DENFORD 7 Knowledge Creation in Firms: An Organizational Economics Perspective 125 NICOLAI J. FOSS AND VOLKER MAHNKE 8 A Framework for Integrating Organizational Learning, Knowledge, Capabilities, and Absorptive Capacity 153 DUSYA VERA, MARY CROSSAN, AND MARINA APAYDIN PART II ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING AND LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS. 9 Learning Portfolios: An Alternative to Learning Organizations 183 ANTHONY J. DIBELLA 10 Intersubjectivity and Community-Building: Learning to Learn Organizationally 199 JOSH PLASKOFF 11 Fads, Fashions, and the Fluidity of Knowledge: Peter Senge's 'The Learning Organization' 225 MIKELLE A. CALHOUN, WILLIAM H. STARBUCK, AND ERIC ABRAHAMSON 12 The Contribution of Teams to Organizational Learning 249 KATHRYN S. ROLOFF, ANITA W. WOOLLEY, AND AMY C. EDMONDSON 13 Absorptive Capacity: Taking Stock of its Progress and Prospects 273 RAYMOND VAN WIJK, FRANS A.J. VAN DEN BOSCH, AND HENK W. VOLBERDA 14 Social Identity and Organizational Learning 305 JOHN CHILD AND SUZANA RODRIGUES 15 Organizations, Learning, and Emotion 331 RUSS VINCE AND YIANNIS GABRIEL 16 Subtle Learning and Organizational Identity as Enablers of Strategic Change 349 KEVIN G. CORLEY, DENNIS A. GIOIA, AND RAJIV NAG PART III KNOWLEDGE AND ITS MANAGEMENT IN ORGANIZATIONS. 17 Dominant Logic, Knowledge Creation, and Managerial Choice 369 RICHARD A. BETTIS, SZE SZE WONG, AND DANIELA BLETTNER 18 Informal Knowledge and Innovation 383 PAUL ALMEIDA, JAN HOHBERGER, AND PEDRO PARADA 19 Knowledge Sharing in Organizations: The Role of Communities 403 GEORG VON KROGH 20 Organizational Forgetting 433 PABLO MARTIN DE HOLAN AND NELSON PHILLIPS 21 How Should We Understand Tacit Knowledge? A Phenomenological View 453 HARIDIMOS TSOUKAS 22 Organizing Knowledge in Social, Alliance, and Organizational Networks 477 RAYMOND VAN WIJK, FRANS A.J. VAN DEN BOSCH, AND HENK W. VOLBERDA 23 Knowledge Assets, Capabilities and the Theory of the Firm 505 DAVID J. TEECE AND ABDULRAHMAN AL-AALI 24 The Human Side of Dynamic Capabilities: a Holistic Learning Model 535 GIANMARIO VERONA AND MAURIZIO ZOLLO 25 Knowledge Structures and Innovation: Useful Abstractions and Unanswered Questions 551 GAUTAM AHUJA AND ELENA NOVELLI PART IV LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE IN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS. 26 The Impact of Intercultural Communication on Global Organizational Learning 581 SULLY TAYLOR AND JOYCE S. OSLAND 27 Collaborating, Learning and Leveraging Knowledge Across Borders: A Meta-Theory of Learning 605 JANE E. SALK AND BERNARD L. SIMONIN 28 Organizational Learning in Asia 635 ROBIN SNELL AND JACKY HONG 29 Learning Across Boundaries: The Effect of Geographic Distribution 659 LINDA ARGOTE, CAROLYN DENOMME, AND ERICA FUCHS