Autonomy, Conformity and Organizational Learning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19035583 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nobuyuki Hanaki (0000-0003-3127-690X, Aix Marseille University (Aix Marseille School of Economics), CNRS, EHESS and IUF. 2 Rue de la Charité, Marseille 13002, France, corresponding author), Hideo Owan (0000-0002-0632-2372, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 32-52 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Administrative Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-3387 • E-ISSN: 2076-3387 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/admsci3030032 |
| OpenAlex | W1995914089 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
There is often said to be a tension between the two types of organizational learning activities, exploration and exploitation. The argument goes that the two activities are substitutes, competing for scarce resources when firms need different capabilities and management policies. We present another explanation, attributing the tension to the dynamic interactions among search, knowledge sharing, evaluation and alignment within organizations. Our results show that successful organizations tend to bifurcate into two types: those that always promote individual initiatives and build organizational strengths on individual learning and those good at assimilating the individual knowledge base and exploiting shared knowledge. Straddling the two types often fails. The intuition is that an equal mixture of individual search and assimilation slows down individual learning, while at the same time making it difficult to update organizational knowledge because individuals’ knowledge base is not sufficiently homogenized. Straddling is especially inefficient when the operation is sufficiently complex or when the business environment is sufficiently turbulent
Autonomy · Business · Conformity · Knowledge management · Organizational learning · Organizational performance · Political science · Business Strategy and Innovation · Computer Science · Innovation and Knowledge Management · Intellectual Capital and Performance Analysis · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Individual and group decisions in the centipede game
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |