Promoting Knowledge Transfer Across Organizational Units

It is challenging to transfer knowledge across organizational units. Several reasons why it is difficult for one unit to benefit from the experience of others have to do with the nature of experience. A unit’s own experience is likely to be more relevant than the experience of other units. As noted previously, differences in

Relationships Across Levels of Organizational Learning Analysis

The research reviewed in this monograph suggests that the relationship between learning processes and outcomes at different levels of analysis needs to be better articulated (e.g., see March, 1991; Miner & Haunschild, 1995). Whether, when and how learning at different levels of analysis complements each other, substitutes for each other or are independent of

Relationships Across Dimensions of Experience in Organizational Learning

The research findings presented in this monograph suggest several relationships across dimensions of experience that would benefit from greater articulation: the relationship between direct and indirect experience, the relationship between het- erogeneous and homogeneous experience and the relationship between experience before doing and experience during doing. 1. Direct and Indirect Experience The relationship between

Managerial and Strategic Implications of Organizational Learning

This section develops managerial and strategic implications of new results in orga- nizational learning for market entry decisions, for the development of organiza- tional capabilities and competitive advantage, for the success of new entrepreneurial ventures and for the design of experience in organizations. 1. Market Entry Researchers have examined the conditions under which it

Future Directions of Organizational Learning

Four new trends in research on organizational learning curves were noted in Chap. 1: examining a wider set of outcome measures and a broader set of organizational contexts, understanding why some organizations are better at learning than others, analyzing the dynamics of knowledge acquisition and loss by organizations, and understanding the conditions under which knowledge