Knowledge and Learning in the Firm

Edited by the late Bart Nooteboom, formerly Professor Emeritus, Tilburg University, The Netherlands

'Improving our understanding of how firms evolve and develop requires that we delve into the cognitive science sources of knowledge and learning. This collection of essays promises to do just that.'

• Contents: Volume I: The Fundamentals of Embodied CognitionAcknowledgementsIntroductionBart NooteboomPART IFUNDAMENTAL CLASSICS 1. F.A. Hayek ([1952] 1976), ‘The Structure of the Mental Order’2. John H. Flavell (1963), ‘Basic Properties of Cognitive Functioning’3. Lev Vygotsky ([1934] 1986), ‘Thought and Word’4. Gregory Bateson ([1972] 2000), ‘The Logical Categories of Learning and Communication’PART IIBODY AND MIND 5. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1999), ‘The Embodied Mind’6. Antonio Damasio (2003), ‘Ever Since Feelings’PART IIITHE SOCIAL DIMENSION 7. George H. Mead (1982), ‘1927 Class Lectures in Social Psychology’8. D.A. Kolb (1984), ‘The Process of Experiential Learning’PART IVCONCEPTS AND REPRESENTATIONS 9. Eleanor Rosch (1978), ‘Principles of Categorization’10. Roger C. Schank and Robert P. Abelson (1977), ‘Scripts’11. B. Shanon (1993), ‘A Picture of Mind’ and ‘The Representational and the Presentational’12. Horst Hendriks-Jansen (1996), ‘Situated Activity, Cultural Scaffolding, and Acts’Name IndexVolume II: Knowledge and Learning in OrganizationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Bart NooteboomPART IORGANIZATIONAL COGNITION 1. Bruce Kogut and Udo Zander (1992), ‘Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Technology’2. Michael D. Cohen and Paul Bacdayan (1994), ‘Organizational Routines Are Stored as Procedural Memory: Evidence from a Laboratory Study’3. Scott D.N. Cook and Dvora Yanow (1993), ‘Culture and Organizational Learning’4. Karl E. Weick (1979), ‘Enactment and Organizing’5. Linda E. Smircich and Gareth Morgan (1982), ‘Leadership: The Management of Meaning’6. Bart Nooteboom (1992), ‘Towards a Dynamic Theory of Transactions’7. Wesley M. Cohen and Daniel A. Levinthal (1990), ‘Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation’PART IIUNITY AND DIVERSITY 8. Paul DiMaggio (1997), ‘Culture and Cognition’9. Haridimos Tsoukas (1996), ‘The Firm as a Distributed Knowledge System: A Constructionist Approach’10. John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid (1991), ‘Organizational Learning and Communities-of-Practice: Toward a Unified View of Working, Learning and Innovation’11. John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid (2001), ‘Knowledge and Organization: A Social-Practice Perspective’12. Steven Postrel (2002), ‘Islands of Shared Knowledge: Specialization and Mutual Understanding in Problem-Solving Teams’13. Morten T. Hansen (1999), ‘The Search-Transfer Problem: The Role of Weak Ties in Sharing Knowledge across Organization Subunits’14. Alessia Contu and Hugh Willmott (2003), ‘Re-Embedding Situatedness: The Importance of Power Relations in Learning Theory’PART IIISTABILITY AND CHANGE 15. Chris Argyris and Donald A. Schön (1978), ‘What is an Organization that it May Learn?’16. James G. March (1991), ‘Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning’17. Rebecca M. Henderson and Kim B. Clark (1990), ‘Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms’18. Michael L. Tushman and Philip Anderson (1986), ‘Technological Discontinuities and Organizational Environments’19. Robert A. Burgelman (1991), ‘Intraorganizational Ecology of Strategy Making and Organizational Adaptation: Theory and Field Research’20. Martha S. Feldman and Brian T. Pentland (2003), ‘Reconceptualizing Organizational Routines as a Source of Flexibility and Change’21. Bart Nooteboom (1999), ‘Innovation, Learning and Industrial Organisation’Name Index