This paper investigates the reuse of knowledge using real-world data gathered by a large information technology firm for internal purposes. Researchers have proposed that one reason that knowledge management system users contribute knowledge is because they are "similar" to others. This data...

A corporation's offshore outsourcing may be seen as the result of a discrete, strategic decision taken in response to an increasing pressure from worldwide competition. However, empirical evidence of a representative cross-sector sample of international Danish firms indicates that offshore...

James G. March conceived organizational learning as a balance between the exploration of new alternatives and the exploitation of existing competencies in an organization. This study extends March's model to consider exploration and exploitation in a hierarchical organization. First, the effect...

The role of automated agents in the electronic marketplace has been growing steadily and has been attracting a lot of research from the artificial intelligence community as well as from economists. We consider the problem of homogeneous sellers of a single raw material or component vying for...

This explorative paper argues that the central problem of economic organization is adaptation to unforeseen contingencies. However, flexibility is a rather neglected issue in the theory of economic organization. This contrasts with much organization theory, in which the seeking and processing of...

In a preceding article we have studied the Communities of Practice and their conditions of emergence using an Agent based model of a set of agents facing a continuous flow of problems. We center now our analysis on the performance of this organizational structure in comparison with a two-level...

Profiting from external knowledge is crucial for a firm's innovation, and strategic alliances are a well-recognized conduit for bringing the benefit of external knowledge as an input to a firm's innovation processes. This study investigates whether the approach a firm follows for learning from...

The objective of this study was to verify the influence of contextual and organizational values on organizational learning in companies of the food industry in the State of Parana, Brazil. As such this research integrates cognitive, cultural and institutional aspects to the investigation of the...

The purpose of this study was to verify the relation between organizational learning and cultural reconstitution in a Brazilian editorial company, during the period from 1995 to 2000. To investigate the learning process a specially built archetype was used. The results revealed that the impact...

The paper focuses the executives and managers that interact with Executive Information Systems (EIS). In order to understand better the results of EIS usage, a field research was made involving organizations in the Brazilian market. A set of constructs was planned with the objective of modeling...