| Description |
xvii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-288) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Dangerous Deficiencies -- What Is Happening? What Is Not? -- The Role of Top Management -- The Future Environments of Business Organizations -- Scientific Knowledge and Improved Technology -- The Complexity of Future Environments -- Environmental Dynamism and Competitiveness -- Sensing and Interpreting the Environment -- Facit AB -- Importance of Environmental Sensing and Interpretation -- Environmental Sensing in Future Firms -- Interpreting What Is Sensed -- Organizational Decision Making -- Decisions And Decision Making Resource In Future Firms -- Decision Making Practices in Future Firms -- Tempting Practices and Firms' Responses -- Organizational Learning Knowledge Acquisition -- Learning and Survival -- Learning, Knowledge, and Innovation -- Organizational Learning: A Practice Whose Time Has Come -- Learning From Experience -- Learning From Others-Vicarious Learning Absorptive Capacity -- |
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Introducing Learning Practices -- Leveraging Learning Through Knowledge Management -- Sematech -- The Four Repositories of Organizational Knowledge -- The Need to Manage Knowledge -- -- Direct, Informal Knowledge Sharing -- Knowledge Management Systems -- Planned Knowledge Transfer Across Teams -- Innovation: The Integration and Exploitation of Knowledge Occupational Specialization -- Within-Firm Approaches for Speeding -- Knowledge Integration Structures in Future Firms -- Changes in Intra-Firm Structures and Processes -- Changes in Firms' Employment Practices -- Changes in Experts' Employment Strategies -- Acquiring and Integrating Expert -- Dealing With the Simultaneous Needs for Change, Efficiency, Flexibility and Employee Commitment -- More-Than-Occasional Conflicts -- Downsizing -- Use of Temporary Workers -- Change and Culture -- Culture and Compensation. |
| Subject |
Organizational change.
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Organizational learning.
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Technological innovations -- Economic aspects.
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Organizational effectiveness.
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| ISBN |
0761930353 cloth alkaline paper |
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0761930361 paperback alkaline paper |
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