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This book is essential for anyone who needs to understand how organizations work, evolve, and learn. In this new edition, Argyris discusses vital topics of current management research, such as tacit knowledge and management, so reflecting the evolving field of organizational learning. * Brings together the thinking of one of the worlda s leading management thinkers: especially in the area of action learning.
| ISBN | 0631213090 | | Pages | 480 | | ISBN13 | 9780631213093
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 838 | | Imprint | Blackwell Publishers | | Published in | Oxford | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9781557866639 | | Publication date | 01 Apr 1999 | | Height (mm) | 248 | | Library of Congress | HD58.82.A7 | | Width (mm) | 174 | | DEWEY | 658.3124 | | Spine width (mm) | 34 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate |
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| | | List of figures | | | | | | List of tables | | | | | | Acknowledgments | | | | | | Preface | | | | | | Introduction: The Evolving Field of Organizational Learning | | 1 | | 1 | | Making Sense of Limited Learning | | 19 | | 2 | | Tacit Knowledge and Management | | 54 | | 3 | | Why Individuals and Organizations have Difficulty in Double-loop Learning | | 67 | | 4 | | Crafting a Theory of Practice: The Case of Organizational Paradoxes | | 92 | | 5 | | Today's Problems with Tomorrow's Organizations | | 107 | | 6 | | Teaching Smart People How to Learn | | 127 | | 7 | | A Leadership Dilemma: Skilled Incompetence | | 139 | | 8 | | Organizational Learning and Management Information Systems | | 151 | | 9 | | Strategy Implementation: An Experiment in Learning | | 164 | | 10 | | How Strategy Professionals Deal with Threat: Individual and Organizational | | 174 | | 11 | | The Dilemma of Implementing Controls: The Case of Managerial Accounting | | 186 | | 12 | | Human Problems with Budgets | | 196 | | 13 | | Bridging Economics and Psychology: The Case of the Economic Theory of the Firm | | 214 | | 14 | | Good Communication that Blocks Learning | | 229 | | 15 | | Reasoning, Action Strategies, and Defensive Routines: The Case of OD Practitioners | | 239 | | 16 | | Inappropriate Defenses against the Monitoring of Organization Development Practice | | 267 | | 17 | | Do Personal Growth Laboratories Represent an Alternative Culture? | | 281 | | 18 | | Actionable Knowledge: Design Causality in the Service of Consequential Theory | | 297 | | 19 | | Field Theory as a Basis for Scholarly Consulting | | 310 | | | More... | | |
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