This PowerPoint deck is used in the classroom to provide a broadly useful framework for value creation. The theme is that we are better equipped to deal with value creation by first gaining insights into how we build knowledge. Part 1 discusses core beliefs critical to a sharpened worldview that...

The latest advances in digital technologies have changed the way companies communicate with their stakeholders. This chapter explores the businesses’ usage of digital communication channels. It focuses on their utilization of social media for marketing and promotion of products, corporate...

This note sketches opportunities for interdisciplinary research in management, and the distinctive contribution that might be made from a European perspective. It highlights a few major domains of research, conceptual issues, disciplines, and specific opportunities and needs in Europe. The...

There are some movements within the project management profession to adopt a new posture regarding project failures. According to this new line of reasoning, failure should be embraced since it provides a learning opportunity to firms (Gino and Staats, 2015; Edmondson, 2011). This paper takes a...

Both in professional and personal lives, group discussions, meetings and friendly arguments are a part of our life. It can help us to effectively participate in any of such discussions if we are aware of the rules and etiquettes of such meetings and of our own roles and responsibilities as...

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...

Information is critical to the survival and growth of organizations and individuals. The challenge for organizations is to process, manage and enhance the growing body of information and how to convert this information into actions that create value and to sustain the value through innovation...

This note sketches opportunities for interdisciplinary research in management, and the distinctive contribution that might be made from a European perspective. It highlights a few major domains of research, conceptual issues, disciplines, and specific opportunities and needs in Europe. The...

We investigate the organizational pursuit of seemingly impossible goals - commonly known as stretch goals. Building from our analysis of the mechanisms through which stretch goals could influence organizational learning and performance, we offer a contingency framework evaluating which...

Este artículo ilustra cómo es posible vincular el concepto de aprendizaje de Peter Senge con la idea de acción-decisión de Alfred Schutz y Darío Parra. Las inferencias presentadas argumentan por qué el proceso de toma de decisiones puede ser considerado como un espacio para el aprendizaje,...