Organizational Cognition and Learning: Building Systems for the Learning OrganizationRelease Date: June, 2007. Copyright © 2007. 362 pages.
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In Stock. Have it as soon as May. 27 with express shipping*. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-313-5, ISBN13: 9781599043135, ISBN10: 1599043130, EISBN13: 9781599043159  | | TopDescriptionManaging organizational cognition and learning has been the subject of many studies and publication and is considered a major source of competitive advantage in the knowledge-based economy in knowledge intensive and traditional business. Organizational Cognition and Learning: Building Systems for the Learning Organization addresses the concept of organizing that is centered around collective learning in organizations and on the learning organization paradigm. Organizational Cognition and Learning: Building Systems for the Learning Organization presents a theory of organizational learning based on a model of organizational memory, explaining organizational processes and dynamics through which organizational memory is built and updated. Organizational Cognition and Learning: Building Systems for the Learning Organization provides a methodology and several tools to elicit and map organizational memory contents, based on the analysis and modelization of discourses through qualitative and quantitative techniques, examples of applications, implications for practice, and a research agenda for the development of methodologies and systems for the learning organizations. TopTable of Contents and List of Contributors
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Luca Iandoli (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy), Giuseppe Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
Digital technologies have played an important role in the diffusion of knowledge management (KM). The distinction between hardware and software, between platform and...
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Luca Iandoli (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy), Giuseppe Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
Before moving on to a more rigorous and systematic discussion in the following chapters, through diverse suggestions and references, this chapter intends to offer th...
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Luca Iandoli (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy), Giuseppe Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
Do organizations act? How can we describe collective action? How does such an action come about? The aim of this chapter is to provide the reader with a review of th...
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Luca Iandoli (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy), Giuseppe Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
In the previous chapter we focused on the concept of collective action. In the same spirit, this chapter investigates another fundamental component of learning, i.e....
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Luca Iandoli (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy), Giuseppe Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
In this chapter we show that the nature of organizational learning is intrinsically paradoxical. According to the model of organizational memory proposed in the prev...
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Luca Iandoli (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy), Giuseppe Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
In the previous chapters we have introduced and analyzed the concept of organizational memory and examined how artifacts and culture influence organizational learnin...
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Luca Iandoli (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy), Giuseppe Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
Organizations are systems designed to guarantee the regularity and continuity of collective actions through the standardization of patterns of action and the establi...
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Luca Iandoli (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy), Giuseppe Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
Through explanatory discourse people apply, construct and explain theories of action and attribute meaning to events and to their own actions and those of others. In...
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Luca Iandoli (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy), Giuseppe Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
In this chapter we present a model of organizational learning that ties together the conceptual elements described in Chapters II, III, IV and V with the process of...
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Luca Iandoli (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy), Giuseppe Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
Beginning with this chapter we will describe a methodological approach to identify, represent and model explanatory discourses. In the first part of this chapter we...
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Luca Iandoli (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy), Giuseppe Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
This chapter deals with the issue of discourse representation. A possible way to represent discourse is by mapping its contents (concepts) and its structure (i.e., s...
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Luca Iandoli (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy), Giuseppe Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
In this chapter we introduce the concept of verbal model. A verbal model is a mathematical modeling of the variables contained in a discourse and of the relationship...
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Luca Iandoli (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy), Giuseppe Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
In the previous chapter we have outlined the basic structure of a verbal model and its main components: Judgments, rules and qualifiers. This chapter proposes a mode...
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Luca Iandoli (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy), Giuseppe Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
In Chapter XII we outlined the basic structure of a verbal model and its main components: Judgments, rules and qualifiers. This chapter illustrates several approache...
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Luca Iandoli (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy), Giuseppe Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
In this chapter, through the description of concrete examples drawn from a field study,1 our intention is to provide the reader with a detailed account of the applic...
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Luca Iandoli (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy), Giuseppe Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
In this book we propose using verbal data such as discourses and speech as input for organizational analysis. One of the main differences between verbal data and tra...
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Luca Iandoli (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy), Giuseppe Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
In this chapter we provide several suggestions for managing cognitive work and learning organizations. We underline that managers should pay attention mainly to the...
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Luca Iandoli (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy), Giuseppe Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
This chapter is dedicated to identifying future research perspectives for the methodological approach presented in this text. The methodological argument is taken up...
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Luca Iandoli (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy), Giuseppe Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
This appendix will present a concrete and detailed example of the construction of verbal models through the application of the methodology presented in Chapter X. In...
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Luca Iandoli (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy), Giuseppe Zollo (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy)
In Chapter XVIII we outlined the characteristics of a computational approach to support organizational analysis. Agent-based modeling, one of the several methodologi...
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This book has earned an honored place on my bookshelf. I expect to access it frequently and will probably also read it again from cover to cover at least once again.
– Journal of Information Technology Cases and Applications Research (2008)
TopAuthor(s)/Editor(s) BiographyLuca Iandoli received his master’s degree in electronics engineering in 1998
from the University of Naples Federico II and a PhD in business and management
from the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 2002. Currently, he is a professor in the
Department of Business and Managerial Engineering, University of Naples Federico
II. His current research interests include application of computational techniques to
business and management, human resource management, organizational learning
and cognition, information technology and organization. His papers have been published
in the Fuzzy Economic Review, Small Business Economics, Journal of Global
Information Technology Management, Human Resources Management Journal, and
Journal of Information Science and Technology. He is a member of the editorial
board of the Fuzzy Economic Review, Journal of Information Technology: Cases
and Applications, and Journal of Global Information Technology Management.Giuseppe Zollo is Full Professor of Business and Management at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Naples Federico II, Italy and Director of the Center for Communication and Organizational Innovation at the University of Naples Federico II. During the years 1985-86 he was Visiting Research Associate at the Dept. of Economics of Northeastern University, Boston (MA), USA. His research interests include Management of Technological Innovation, Small Innovative Enterprises, Information Technology Management, Competencies Management, soft computing for business and economics. He received several awards for his scientific activity such as: Entrepreneurship Award from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (1992); RENT Award from the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, Brussels (1993, 1995 and 2000); Best Paper Award from FGF Universitat of Dortmund (1994); European Quality Award for research on T.Q.M from EFQM (1997), 2005 GITM conference Best paper award. He is Vice President of the International Association for Fuzzy Sets Economy and Management (SIGEF) and serves as editorial board member in the Fuzzy Economic Review, the Journal of Information Technology: Cases and Application, and the Journal of Global Information Technology Management. |
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