Strategic management of technological learning : learning to learn and learning to learn-how-to-learn as drivers of strategic choice and firm performance in global, technology-driven markets
by
 
Carayannis, Elias G.

Title
Strategic management of technological learning : learning to learn and learning to learn-how-to-learn as drivers of strategic choice and firm performance in global, technology-driven markets

Author
Carayannis, Elias G.

ISBN
9780849337413

Personal Author
Carayannis, Elias G.

Publication Information
Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, ©2001.

Physical Description
197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series
Technology management series
 
Technology management series (CRC Press)

Contents
Concept of Decision Making Under Uncertainty: Interdisciplinary Overview of Decision-Making Theories -- Strategic Decision Making: Essence of Strategic Management of Technology -- Overview of Decision- and Strategy-Making Schools -- Analytic or Synoptic School of Decision Making -- Experiential or Incremental School of Decision Making -- Problem Definition -- Identification, Evaluation, and Selection of Alternatives -- Implementation -- Design School of Strategy Making -- Planning School of Strategy Making -- Emergent Learning and Deliberate Planning or "Austrian" School of Strategy Making -- Concept of Paradigms in Decision Making -- Analytic Paradigm -- Cybernetic Paradigm -- Cognitive Paradigm -- Concepts of Culture, Feedback, and Learning in Decision Making and Strategy Crafting -- Culture As A Medium for Learning -- Concept of Organizational Culture from Three Perspectives: Integration, Differentiation, and Fragmentation -- Organizational Culture as a Facilitator/Inhibitor of Technological Learning: A Metaculture Perspective -- Feedback as a Tool for Learning -- Interdisciplinary Overview -- Multilayered Feedback and Strategic Decision Making -- Feedback and Self-Organization in the Strategic Management of Technology -- Learning: Autonomy and Responsibility -- Interdisciplinary Overview -- Multiple-Level Learning: Individual, Group, Intraorganizational, Interorganizational, and Supraorganizational -- Multiple-Loop Learning: Operational, Tactical, Strategic, and Metastrategic.

Abstract
"The Strategic Management of Technological Learning explores a portfolio of case studies on technology-driven - but not exclusively high-tech - companies that have an overall long-term record of success and prosperity. Through in-depth interviews with industry practitioners, the author empirically identifies the presence of Strategic or Active Incrementalism."--Jacket.

Subject Term
Organizational learning.
 
Technological innovations -- Study and teaching -- Management.
 
Employees -- Training of -- Management.
 
Apprentissage organisationnel.
 
Innovations -- Étude et enseignement -- Gestion.
 
Personnel -- Formation -- Gestion.

Electronic Access
CRCnetBASE http://www.crcnetbase.com/isbn/9781420037364
 
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