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Organizational Learning and Knowledge Generation

Organizational Learning and Knowledge Generation. Kogut & Zander Hedlund Huber Sven Thoms MIS 580 October 20, 2005. Kogut & Zander. Kogut: Professor of International Management at Wharton B-School - Organizational Design, E-Business, Competition

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Organizational Learning and Knowledge Generation

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  1. Organizational Learning and Knowledge Generation Kogut & Zander Hedlund Huber Sven Thoms MIS 580 October 20, 2005

  2. Kogut & Zander • Kogut: Professor of International Management at Wharton B-School - Organizational Design, E-Business, Competition • Zander: IIB Stockholm Professor, Innovation and Entrepreneurship • Organizational design and innovation research combined in article

  3. Hedlund • Was Director of Institute of Institute of International Business at Stockholm • European Institute of Japanese Studies • Spent time at Wharton  Kogut • Died of illness in 1997 • 1993 article with Nonaka on Models of Knowledge Management in the West and Japan • Builds on individual, group, organization, network perspective Kogut and Zander introduced

  4. Huber • Organizational Change and Redesign at University of Texas, Austin • Book 1993: The Necessary Nature of Future Firms - Attributes of Survivors in a Changing World • Topics: Organizational Change, Learning, Adaptation

  5. Kogut, Zander, HedlundRelated Themes • Combinatorial Chemistry at Aventis Tucson • Temporal vs. Spatial vs. Semiotic Information • Book: Managing Information In Complex Organizations by Kevin Desouza and Tobin Hensgen • Semiotics: study of information flows and interpretation of signs in data • Semiotic Ladder of Knowledge Generation and Dissipation • Morphological, Empirics, Syntactical, Semantic, Pragmatics

  6. Huber Related Themes • Organizational Memory: temporal information • Information Distribution: actionable knowledge generated during pragmatic reasoning finds way back to actors and objects that provided information • Information Interpretation: classification, relating, meaning attachment

  7. Innovation in Western Culture • Alleviating competitive pressures to allow for free recombination of ideas: • Christensen, Clayton “The Innovator’s Dilemma” (Harvard) • Spinoffs • MIT Research on face-to-face (Allen): • BMW Research and Development Center • Reduction of physical distance, free exchange of ideas, in spite of formal organizational mindset • Matrix structures, organizational design, problem solving, Allen Curve (distance vs. interaction)

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