Organizational Learning and Knowledge Generation

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Organizational Learning and Knowledge Generation

• Kogut Zander
• Hedlund
• Huber
• Sven Thoms
• MIS 580
• October 20, 2005

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Kogut Zander

• Kogut Professor of International Management at
  Wharton B-School
• - Organizational Design, E-Business,
  Competition
• Zander IIB Stockholm Professor, Innovation and
  Entrepreneurship
• Organizational design and innovation research
  combined in article

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Hedlund

• Was Director of Institute of Institute of
  International Business at Stockholm
• European Institute of Japanese Studies
• Spent time at Wharton ? Kogut
• Died of illness in 1997
• 1993 article with Nonaka on Models of Knowledge
  Management in the West and Japan
• Builds on individual, group, organization,
  network perspective Kogut and Zander introduced

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Huber

• Organizational Change and Redesign at University
  of Texas, Austin
• Book 1993 The Necessary Nature of Future Firms -
  Attributes of Survivors in a Changing World
• Topics Organizational Change, Learning,
  Adaptation

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Kogut, Zander, HedlundRelated Themes

• Combinatorial Chemistry at Aventis Tucson
• Temporal vs. Spatial vs. Semiotic Information
• Book Managing Information In Complex
  Organizations by Kevin Desouza and Tobin Hensgen
• Semiotics study of information flows and
  interpretation of signs in data
• Semiotic Ladder of Knowledge Generation and
  Dissipation
• Morphological, Empirics, Syntactical, Semantic,
  Pragmatics

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Huber Related Themes

• Organizational Memory temporal information
• Information Distribution actionable knowledge
  generated during pragmatic reasoning finds way
  back to actors and objects that provided
  information
• Information Interpretation classification,
  relating, meaning attachment

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Innovation in Western Culture

• Alleviating competitive pressures to allow for
  free recombination of ideas
• Christensen, Clayton The Innovators Dilemma
  (Harvard)
• Spinoffs
• MIT Research on face-to-face (Allen)
• BMW Research and Development Center
• Reduction of physical distance, free exchange of
  ideas, in spite of formal organizational mindset
• Matrix structures, organizational design, problem
  solving, Allen Curve (distance vs. interaction)