Reading between the lines: Learning as a process between organizational context and individuals’ proclivities

Stefano Brusoni () and Nicole A. Rosenkranz

European Management Journal, 2014, vol. 32, issue 1, 147-154

Abstract: Critical firm-level results, such as strategic renewal and sustainable firm performance are recurrently attributed to organizational learning. Yet, many scholars claim that this firm-level phenomenon has not been sufficiently broken down and connected with lower level activities. Consequently, this paper intends to focus on two nascent conceptual bridges for linking macro- and micro-level structures and processes in the organizational learning literature: (organizational) identity and (organizational) attention. We first briefly review these two approaches, trying to show their complementarities. We shall argue that research on identity and attention is delivering results useful to establish suitable foundations to the organizational learning literature; that both can be scaled up from the individual level to do justice to the multilevel nature of learning and finally that both lend themselves to the analysis of the seemingly unsolvable tension between exploitation and exploration in organizational learning.

Keywords: Identity theory; Attention; Multi-level construct; Organizational learning; Exploitation; Exploration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2013.04.011

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