Organizational Learning

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Contents 1 Articles 1.1 Introduction and Organizing Session 1.2 Organizational Learning 1.3 Group Learning 1.4 Group and Organizational Learning 1.5 Creating Knowledge 1.6 Embedding and Retaining Knowledge 1.7 Transferring Knowledge

Articles

(from the Fall 2008 Syllabus)

Introduction and Organizing Session

• Leavitt, H. J. (1996). The old days, hot groups and manager’s lib. Administrative Science Quarterly, 41, 288-300.

Organizational Learning

• Levitt, B., & March, J. G. (1988). Organizational learning, Annual Review of Sociology, 14, 319-340.

• Argote, L., & Ophir, R. (2002). Intraorganizational learning. In J. Baum (Ed.), Companion to organizations. Blackwell.

• Schulz, M. (2002). Organizational learning. In J. Baum (Ed.), Companion to organizations. Blackwell.

• Argote, L. (1999). Organizational learning: Creating, retaining and transferring knowledge. Norwell, MA: Kluwer. (Chapter 1)

• Reagans, R., Argote, L., & Brooks, D. (2005). Individual experience and experience working together: Predicting learning rates from knowing what to do and knowing who knows what. Management Science, 51, 869-881.

• Edmondson, A. C., Dillon, J. R., & Roloff, K. S.(2007) Three Perspectives on Team Learning, The Academy of Management Annals, 1:1(pp.269- 314).

• March, J. G. (1991). Exploration and exploitation in organizational learning. Organization Science, 2, 71-87.

• Rashmandad, H. (2008). Effects of delays on complexity of organizational learning. Management Science, 54, 1297-1312.

• Groysberg, B., & Lee, L. (in press). Hiring stars and their colleagues: Exploration and exploitation in professional service firms. Organization Science.

Group Learning

• Edmondson, A. (1999). Psychological safety and learning behavior in work teams. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44, 350-383.

• Bunderson, J. S., & Sutcliffe, K. M. (2003). Management team learning orientation and business unit performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88(3), 552–560.

• Ellis, A. P. J., Hollenbeck, J.R., Ilgen, D.R., Porter, C. O.L. H., West, B. J., & Moon, H. (2003). Team learning: Collectively connecting the dots. Journal of Applied Psychology, 88, 821-835.

Group and Organizational Learning

• Argote, L., & Todorova, G. (2007). Organizational learning. In Hodgkinson, G. & Ford, K. J. (Eds). International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Vol. 22 (pp. 193-234).

• Haunschild, P. R., & Sullivan, B. N. (2002). Learning from complexity: Effects of accident, incident heterogeneity on airline learning. Administrative Science Quarterly, 47, 609-643.

• Taylor, A., & Greve, H. R. (2006). Superhuman or the fantastic four: Knowledge combination and experience in innovative teams. Academy of Management Journal, 49, 723-740.

Creating Knowledge

• Hargadon, A. B. & Bechky, B.A. (2006). When collections of creatives become creative collectives: A field study of problem solving at work. Organization Science, 17, 484-500.

• Dunbar, K. (1995). How scientists really reason: Scientific reasoning in real-world laboratories. In R. J. Sternberg & J. E. Davidson (eds.), The Nature of Insight (pp. 65-395). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

• Choi, H. S. & Thompson, L. (2005). Old wine in a new bottle: Impact of membership change on group creativity. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 98, 121-132.

Embedding and Retaining Knowledge

• Liang, D. W., Moreland, R., & Argote, L. (1995). Group versus individual training and group performance: The mediating role of transactive memory. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 21, 384-393.

• Hollingshead, A. B. (1998). Communication, learning and retrieval in transactive memory systems. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 34, 423-442.

• Lewis, K., Lange, D., & Gillis, L. (2005). Transactive memory systems, learning, and learning transfer. Organization Science, 16(6), 581-598.*

• Todorova, G., Argote, L., & Reagans, R. (2008).Working alone or working together: The effects of individual motivation and group identification on transactive memory systems and team performance. Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management.

• Majchrzak, A., Jarvenpaa, S. L., & Hollingshead, A. B. (2007). Coordinating expertise among emergent groups responding to disasters. Organization Science, 18, 147-161.

• Argote, L. (1999). Organizational learning: Creating, retaining and transferring knowledge. Norwell, MA: Kluwer. (Chapters 2 &3 ).

• Cohen, M. D., & Bacdayan, P. (1994). Organizational routines are stored as procedural memory: Evidence from a laboratory study. Organization Science, 5, 554-568.

• Feldman, M.S. & Pentland, B. T. (2003). Reconceptualizing organizational routines as a source of stability and change. Administrative Science Quarterly, 48, 94-118.

• Levinthal, D., & Rerup, C. (2006). Crossing an apparent chasm: Bridging mindful and less mindful perspectives on organizational learning. Organization Science, 17, 502-513.

Transferring Knowledge

• Argote, L. (1999). Organizational learning: Creating, retaining and transferring knowledge. Norwell, MA: Kluwer. Chapter 5.

• Hansen, M. (1999). The search-transfer problem: The role of weak ties in sharing knowledge across organizational subunits. Administrative Science Quarterly, 44(1), 82-112.

• Kane, A. A., Argote, L., & Levine, J. (2005) Knowledge transfer between groups via personnel rotation: Effects of social identity and knowledge quality. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 96, 56-71.

• Bresman, H. (forthcoming). External Learning Activities and Team Performance: A Multi-Method Field Study. Organization Science.

• Darr, E. D., Argote, L., & Epple, D. (1995). The acquisition, transfer and depreciation of knowledge in service organizations: Productivity in franchises. Management Science, 41, 1750-1762.

• Argote, L., & Ingram, P. (2000). Knowledge transfer in organizations: A basis for competitive advantage in firms. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 150-169.

• Jensen, R. J., & Szulanski, G. (2007). Template use and the effectiveness of knowledge transfer. Management Science, 53, 1716-1730.