Organizational Learning and Competitive Advantage

✍ Scribed by Bertrand Moingeon, Amy Edmondson

• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

`[I}n this volume, contributors from the fields of both strategic management and organizational behaviour have been brought together to explore the relationship between organizational learning and competitive advantage.... In their editorial introduction, Edmonson and Moingeon trace changes within the fields of strategy and organizational development that have encouraged a more integrative approach. On the strategy side, the emergence of the "resource view of the firm" has drawn attention to the importance of firm-specific resources including knowledge and how it is acquired, as sources of competitive advantage. On the other hand, organizational development practitioners have become increasingly interested in relating their traditional t

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Notes on the Contributors......Page 8
Prologue: Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Management......Page 12
Introduction :Organizational Learning as a Source of Competitive Advantage......Page 18
Part 1: LEARNING PROCESSES AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE......Page 27
1 - When to Learn How and When to Learn Why: Appropriate Organizational Learning Processes as a Source of Competitive Advantage......Page 28
2 - Organizational Learning Style as a Core Capability......Page 49
3 - Competitive Advantage from Tacit Knowledge? Unpacking the Concept and its Strategic Implications......Page 67
4 - Organizations in the Fog: An Investigation into the Dynamics of Knowledge......Page 85
Part 2: ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING AND STRATEGIC CAPABILITY......Page 103
5 - Resources, Capabilities and Competencies......Page 104
6 - Core Capabilities and Information Technology :An Organizational Learning Approach......Page 132
7 - Organizational Capability as a Source of Profit......Page 150
Part 3: STRATEGIC CHANGE AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING......Page 175
8 - Developing an Organization Capable of Strategy Implementation and Reformulation: A Preliminary Test......Page 176
9 - Reorganizational Learning: Some Conceptual Tools from
Weick's Model of Organizing......Page 196
10 - The Epistemology of Strategic Consulting: Generic Analytical Activities and Organizational Learning......Page 213
Index......Page 236