Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge

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Meinolf Dierkes
Oxford University Press, 2001 - 979 oldal
'Finalist for the 2002 Terry Book Award, Academy of Management.' An excellent and monumental volume edited by a distinguished group of scholars' -Professor Walter Nord, Chairman, Terry Book Award Committee 'For knowledge-based societies like ours, this Handbook is an invaluable and stimulating resource.' -Volker Hauff, Member of the Board, BearingPoint GmbH, and former German Federal Minister of Research and Technology 'A very comprehensive tool for students of organisational behaviour in business schools and companies around the world.' -Jeffrey Garten, Dean, Yale University School of Management 'This edited volume provides an exhaustive overview of cutting edge scholarship on organisational learning.' -David Vogel, Editor, California Management Review 'The handbook unites a distinguished team of international authors... The learning approach of the editorial team has been to assimilate many disciplines, different contexts and practices. Facilitated by numerous illustrative examples, this volume is designed to prompt intellectual debate, and the development of learning practices among managers, researchers and policy makers.' -Organisation Studies 'An invaluable reference volume for scholars and students concerned with the leading edge issues involved in organisational development, learning and change.' -Long Range Planning 'The editors suggest to approach the book like an oriental bazaar 'the bazaar provides a whole range of goods and follows its own laws'. That means; look everywhere if there is something interesting. And there is.' -Financial Times Deutschland 'The book succeeds in taking the reader on a journey through the many diverse approaches, themes, issues and debates surrounding this field.' -European Business Forum 'An impressive work of scholarship and teamwork... the Handbook is strong on theory and surveys of the literature in the field. A good number of chapters stand out as both excellent and illuminating here... handsomely produced.' -Journal of General ManagementThis handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the concept of Organisational Learning and related issues of knowledge in organisations. It explains its origins, current applications, and where it may be going. It provides a full account of varied disciplinary approaches, and discusses major issues in the field. With contributions from leading international experts, the book will be an invaluable resource for scholars, students, and professionals.

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Meinolf Dierkes is Director of the Organization and Technology Research Unit at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB). In addition, he is Professor of the Sociology of Science and Technology at the Technische Universität, Berlin; Visiting Professor at the Haas School of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley; and Specially Invited Research Professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Professor Ariane Berthoin Antal is Program Leader in Organizational Learning at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB). Previously she served as the Founding Director of the Ashridge International Institute for Organizational Change in France. She remains an associate of Ashridge and is a visiting lecturer at the Leipzig Graduate School of Business, as well as at the Technical University of Berlin. John Child is Chair of Commerce at the University of Birmingham. During his career in both industry and academia, Professor Child has taught in the UK, Europe, Hong Kong, and China. He was appointed Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Aston University in 1973, and, in 1986 became Dean of the newly-founded Aston Business School. In 1989, he was appointed Dean and Director of the China-European Community Management Centre in Beijing, with which he had been connected since 1985. In 1991, he took up the position of Diageo Professor of Management Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is author or co-author of 16 books including Strategies of Cooperation (OUP, 1998) and The Management of International Acquisitions (OUP, forthcoming). Ikujiro Nonaka is Professor at the Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy, Hitotsubashi University, and Founding Dean of the Graduate School of Knowledge Science at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST). He is a senior editor of Organization Science, an international journal of the Institute of Management Science. From 1991 to 1995, he was a research group director of the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP). Nonaka is the Xerox Distinguished Professor of Knowledge at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. His books include The Knowledge-Creating Company (OUP, 1995), which was awarded Best Book of the Year in Business and Management by the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division, and more recently Enabling Knowledge Creation (OUP, 2000).

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