We report results of a study on processes of Organizational Learning (OL). Changes and suspensions of organizational rules are taken as indicators for OL. The empiric analysis is performed with personnel rules of a German bank. The aim of our study is to identify factors that have an impact on...

The paper builds on recent approaches in institutional theory on the co-existence of logics to analyse how field actors handle competing institutional demands in their practices. Business schools’ reactions to the critique that their research is not sufficiently relevant is analysed...

In this article, we analyze approaches for identifying and transferring "best practices." The relevant literature shows that both, the identification and the transfer practices, are extremely difficult processes. Nevertheless, management consultants position themselves and are seen by others as...

This paper deals with organizational rules as storages for organizational knowledge and media for organizational learning. The discussion starts with a revisiting of the first rule based theory of organizational learning, the Behavioral Theory of the Firm, that was developed by Richard Cyert and...

We analyze organizational learning that is based on formal organizational rules. Organizational rules contain problem-solving procedures. Their usefulness as media of organizational learning is, however, dependent on certain properties of the rule system and on the organizational members'...