Sage Publications Organizational Learning: 2 (Organization Science)

[An] intellectually stimulating collection of essays. --Business Today How do organizations learn, change, and adapt? The study of "organizational learning" allows researchers to map an organization′s past behavior and gain insight into how stream of experience becomes a basis for action in the present. The chapters in Organizational Learning, all from first-rate researchers, contribute to the development of organizational learning theory in three ways. They delineate its scope, differentiating it from ecology, choice, and individual learning. They demonstrate the explanatory power of a learning perspective, and they illustrate the application of research tools useful for studies of learning. Organizational Learning is an essential resource for scholars and researchers in the field of organization and management studies.