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This paper proposes a paradigm for managing the dynamic aspects of organizational knowledge creating processes. Its central theme is that organizational knowledge is created through a continuous dialogue between tacit an...

Materias / palabras clave: Organizational change; Knowledge management; Personnel management; Cambio organizacional; Gestión del conocimiento; Gestión del personal

Materias / palabras clave: Organizational learning; Aprendizaje organizacional; Educational technology; Tecnología educativa; Knowledge management; Gestión del conocimiento

Materias / palabras clave: Gestión de empresas; Gestión del conocimiento; Aprendizaje organizacional; Motivación del empleado; Gestión de personal; Industrial management; Knowledge management; Organizational learning

Materias / palabras clave: Knowledge management; Administración del conocimiento; Organizational learning; Aprendizaje organizacional

Materias / palabras clave: Comportamiento organizacional; Conocimiento, Sociología del; Innovaciones tecnológicas; Organizational behavior; Knowledge, Sociology of; Technological innovations

How should we understand why firms exist? A prevailing view has been that they serve to keep in check the transaction costs arising from the self-interested motivations of individuals. We develop in this article the argu...

This paper answers the question, “Why do organizations process information?” Uncertainty and equivocality are defined as two forces that influence information processing in organizations. Organization structure and i...

Knowledge is a broad and abstract notion that has defined epistemological debate in western philosophy since the classical Greek era. In the past few years, however, there has been a growing interest in treating knowledg...

This paper considers the relation between the exploration of new possibilities and the exploitation of old certainties in organizational learning. It examines some complications in allocating resources between the two, p...

Abstract Given assumptions about the characteristics of knowledge and the knowledge requirements of production, the firm is conceptualized as an institution for integrating knowledge. The primary contribution of the pape...

From the Publisher: The definitive primer on knowledge management, this book will establish the enduring vocabulary and concepts and serve as the hands-on resource of choice for fast companies that recognize knowledge as...

Materias / palabras clave: Organizational behavior; Organizational effectiveness; Organizational change; Psychology; Management; Organizational culture; Knowledge management; Process management; Sociology; Business; Public relations; Social psycho...

Scholars of the theory of the firm have begun to emphasize the sources and conditions of what has been described as “the organizational advantage,” rather than focus on the causes and consequences of market failure. ...

Self-reports figure prominently in organizational and management research, but there are several problems associated with their use. This article identifies six categories of self-reports and discusses such problems as c...

Examines how external constraints affect organizations and how to design and manage organizations under such constraints. Taking a resource dependence perspective on organizations, the book discusses basic components of ...

Theorists in various fields have discussed characteristics of top managers. This paper attempts to synthesize these previously fragmented literatures around a more general “upper echelons perspective.” The theory sta...

The Nature of Sensemaking Seven Properties of Sensemaking Sensemaking in Organizations Occasions for Sensemaking The Substance of Sensemaking Belief-Driven Processes of Sensemaking Action-Driven Processes of Sensemaking ...

Social network analysis is used widely in the social and behavioral sciences, as well as in economics, marketing, and industrial engineering. The social network perspective focuses on relationships among social entities ...

This article discusses the research strategy of theory building from cases, particularly multiple cases. Such a strategy involves using one or more cases to create theoretical constructs, propositions, and/or midrange th...

Two paradigms characterize much of the research in the Information Systems discipline: behavioral science and design science. The behavioral-science paradigm seeks to develop and verify theories that explain or predict h...

Essential Guide to Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research is an excellent resource for students and researchers in the areas of organization studies, management research and organizational psychology, bringing to...