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

The fully revised and updated version of this successfulHandbook is welcomed by management scholars world-wide. Bybringing together the latest approaches from the leading experts inorganizational learning & knowledge management the volumeprovides a unique and valuable overview of current thinking abouthow 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

1 The Evolving Field of Organizational Learning and KnowledgeManagement 1MARK EASTERBY-SMITH AND MARJORIE A. LYLESPART I DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES.2 Organizational Learning Viewed from a Social LearningPerspective 23ULRIK BRANDI AND BENTE ELKJAER3 Organizational Learning: The Sociology of Practice 43SILVIA GHERARDI4 Psychological Perspectives in Organizational Learning: AFour-Quadrant Approach 67HELEN SHIPTON AND ROBERT DEFILLIPPI5 Information Technology and the Possibilities for KnowledgeSharing 83NIALL HAYES6 Knowledge Management: Process, Practice and Web 2.0 105MARYAM ALAVI AND JAMES S. DENFORD7 Knowledge Creation in Firms: An Organizational EconomicsPerspective 125NICOLAI J. FOSS AND VOLKER MAHNKE8 A Framework for Integrating Organizational Learning,Knowledge, Capabilities, and Absorptive Capacity 153DUSYA VERA, MARY CROSSAN, AND MARINA APAYDINPART II ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING AND LEARNINGORGANIZATIONS.9 Learning Portfolios: An Alternative to Learning Organizations183ANTHONY J. DIBELLA10 Intersubjectivity and Community-Building: Learning to LearnOrganizationally 199JOSH PLASKOFF11 Fads, Fashions, and the Fluidity of Knowledge: Peter Senge's'The Learning Organization' 225MIKELLE A. CALHOUN, WILLIAM H. STARBUCK, AND ERIC ABRAHAMSON12 The Contribution of Teams to Organizational Learning249KATHRYN S. ROLOFF, ANITA W. WOOLLEY, AND AMY C. EDMONDSON13 Absorptive Capacity: Taking Stock of its Progress andProspects 273RAYMOND VAN WIJK, FRANS A.J. VAN DEN BOSCH, AND HENK W.VOLBERDA14 Social Identity and Organizational Learning 305JOHN CHILD AND SUZANA RODRIGUES15 Organizations, Learning, and Emotion 331RUSS VINCE AND YIANNIS GABRIEL16 Subtle Learning and Organizational Identity as Enablers ofStrategic Change 349KEVIN G. CORLEY, DENNIS A. GIOIA, AND RAJIV NAGPART III KNOWLEDGE AND ITS MANAGEMENT INORGANIZATIONS.17 Dominant Logic, Knowledge Creation, and Managerial Choice369RICHARD A. BETTIS, SZE SZE WONG, AND DANIELA BLETTNER18 Informal Knowledge and Innovation 383PAUL ALMEIDA, JAN HOHBERGER, AND PEDRO PARADA19 Knowledge Sharing in Organizations: The Role of Communities403GEORG VON KROGH20 Organizational Forgetting 433PABLO MARTIN DE HOLAN AND NELSON PHILLIPS21 How Should We Understand Tacit Knowledge? A PhenomenologicalView 453HARIDIMOS TSOUKAS22 Organizing Knowledge in Social, Alliance, and OrganizationalNetworks 477RAYMOND VAN WIJK, FRANS A.J. VAN DEN BOSCH, AND HENK W.VOLBERDA23 Knowledge Assets, Capabilities and the Theory of the Firm505DAVID J. TEECE AND ABDULRAHMAN AL-AALI24 The Human Side of Dynamic Capabilities: a Holistic LearningModel 535GIANMARIO VERONA AND MAURIZIO ZOLLO25 Knowledge Structures and Innovation: Useful Abstractions andUnanswered Questions 551GAUTAM AHUJA AND ELENA NOVELLIPART IV LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE IN INTERNATIONALCONTEXTS.26 The Impact of Intercultural Communication on GlobalOrganizational Learning 581SULLY TAYLOR AND JOYCE S. OSLAND27 Collaborating, Learning and Leveraging Knowledge AcrossBorders: A Meta-Theory of Learning 605JANE E. SALK AND BERNARD L. SIMONIN28 Organizational Learning in Asia 635ROBIN SNELL AND JACKY HONG29 Learning Across Boundaries: The Effect of GeographicDistribution 659LINDA ARGOTE, CAROLYN DENOMME, AND ERICA FUCHS