Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management [Paperback]

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

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

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