Learning Organizations Extending the Field [Hardcover]

This book is designed to extend the field of organizational learning in several ways. The contributors from three continents bring different perspectives on processes and outcomes of knowledge creation and sharing in and between organizations in diverse contexts. They use approaches and concepts from numerous disciplines including the arts, economics, geography, organizational studies, psychology, and sociology. The contributions enrich the spatial turn in organization studies by offering fresh insights for researchers who seek to attend to the contextual dimensions of the phenomena they are studying. They provide examples of organizational places and spaces that have not yet received sufficient attention, as diverse as temporary international organizations and computer screens.

The Importance of Knowledge Environments and Spatial Relations for Organizational Learning: An Introduction: Ariane Berthoin Antal, Peter Meusburger, and Laura Suarsana.- Learning from Screens: Does Ideology Prevail over Lived Experience? The Example of ERP Systems: Fran?ois-R?gis Puyou.- Organizational Design for Knowledge Exchange: The Hau-Ba Model: Ahmed Bounfour and Gw?na?lle Grefe.- Command or Conviction? Informal Networks and the Diffusion of Controversial Innovations: Johannes Gl?ckler and Robert Panitz.- Collaboration and Knowledge Gains in Organizations: Wolfgang Scholl.- Organizing Relational Distance: Innovation as the Management of Sociocultural and Time-spatial Tensions: Oliver Ibert.- Organizational Learning and Physical Space: How Office Configurations Inform Organizational Behaviors:lč