The Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management

1. Edition May 2003
700 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
This is the state-of-the-art, international handbook for a field of
inquiry that is still emergent and yet occupies a central position
in contemporary management and organization theory. Marjorie Lyles
at the University of Indiana and Mark Easterby-Smith at Lancaster
University, UK, draw together analyses and critical commentary from
the leading experts on organizational learning and knowledge
management around the world. Links are made to existing bodies of
theory in the root disciplines of economics, psychology and social
theory, while the challenging implications for research and future
paths of inquiry are outlined and discussed.
* * The definitive up-to-date guide to the field.
* Original contributions by the leading scholars of
Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management world-wide.
* Editors internationally recognised authorities.
* Handbook shows links between 'knowledge' and 'learning'
literatures.
* Indicates paths for future research and inquiry.
* 'Must Have' reference source for all scholars in this
field.
List of Tables.
List of Contributors.
Foreword: Karl E. Weick.
1. Introduction: Watersheds Of Organizational Learning And
Knowledge Management: Marjorie A. Lyles and Mark
Easterby-Smith.
Part I: Disciplinary Perspectives.
Part II: Learning And Knowledge In OrganizationsOrganizational
Learning and Learning Organizations.
Part III: Organizational Knowledge And KM.
Part IV: Problematizing OrganizationalL Learning And
Knowledge.
Index.
Graduate Management School at Lancaster University. He was founder
of the international journal Management Learning and is
internationally renowned for his published work on organizational
learning and management research methods. Currently he is
Vice-Chair of the British Academy of Management.
Marjorie A. Lyles is Professor of International Strategic
Management and the Kimball Faculty Fellow at the Indiana University
Kelley School of Business, USA. She has worked in Europe, China,
and the USA, and published seminal articles in the Strategic
Management Journal and Journal of Management Studies on
strategy and learning. She is widely recognized for her
contribution to the field.