The field of business policy/strategic management has offered a variety of frameworks and concepts during the last half century, many aimed at 'taking business and its management seriously.' Research conferences and resulting books and journals have provided intellectual momentum, augmented by...

By adopting a cognitive perspective, we examine ways in which knowledge creation processes within organizations effectively enhance organizational knowledge via the cognitive processes of organizational members. We identify two distinct yet complementary learning processes—informational and...

Despite the growing body of literature on both organizational learning (OL) and corporate venture development (CVD), very few attempts have been made to establish connections between these two literature streams. While existing literature provides some evidence that OL may facilitate the process...

Why do so many firms have difficulty improving their strategic management processes, even though many of their operating departments gain benefits from the “experience curve”? For example, an impressively successful midwestern bank improves the performance of acquired banks in contiguous...