How Organizations Learn

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Pub. Date: 1996-03-01
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning Emea
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Table of Contents

List of figures
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Introductionp. 1
The knowledge-creating companyp. 18
Beyond the rational modelp. 32
Beyond the cowboy and the corpocratp. 43
The purposing of high-performing systemsp. 60
Skilled incompetencep. 82
Planning as learningp. 92
The dominant logic: A new linkage between diversity and performancep. 100
Organizing for innovationp. 135
Designing the innovating organizationp. 156
Designing collateral organizationsp. 182
Intelligent technology, intelligent workers: A new pedagogy for the high-tech workplacep. 199
Product development in Ford of Europe: Undoing the past/learning the futurep. 214
Developing the forgotten army: Learning and the top managerp. 230
GE's Crotonville: A staging ground for corporate revolutionp. 243
Management and the learning processp. 270
The leader's new work: Building learning organizationsp. 288
Organizational learning: The key to management innovationp. 316
Second thoughts on teambuildingp. 335
Crucial gaps in the 'Learning Organization': Power, politics and ideologyp. 348
Executive tourism: The dynamics of strategic leadership in the MNCp. 368
Top management teams and organizational renewalp. 381
Indexp. 410
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