Integration and learning process

Patrick Cohendet () and Patrick Llerena
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Patrick Cohendet: BETA - Bureau d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - UNISTRA - Université de Strasbourg - UL - Université de Lorraine - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, HEC Montréal - HEC Montréal

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Abstract: Integration is often considered as an ideal organizational means to cope with a changing environment. Our paper is an attempt first to explain the context in which integrated manufacturing appears and second to develop an analysis of the integration process itself. We argue that, in an uncertain (disturbed) environment, integration becomes essentially a way to obtain coherent local learning processes. In a first part we will try to characterize the long term evolution of manufacturing systems in terms of growing complexity, with its three succeeding manufacturing models; in a second part we will devote some thoughts to the notions of flexibility and integration as such and we will then demonstrate that these notions are not an aim in themselves, but that they correspond to a certain type of organization which comes about when a firm has to face a disturbed environment. When this is the case integration consists mainly in creating some coherence among local learning processes.

Keywords: Learning; Organization; Bounded rationality; Uncertainty; Integration; Innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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Published in Paul Bourgine; Bernard Walliser. Economics and Cognitive Science, Elsevier, pp.181-189, 1992, 978-0-08-041050-0. ⟨10.1016/B978-0-08-041050-0.50022-4⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-041050-0.50022-4

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