Summary: The Adaptive Organization

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  • (1) Two perspectives on change

    - determinism (external selection)
    - voluntarism (internal selection)
  • (1) What typifies an interconnected, dynamic market? (3)

    - easily disrupted
    - the red-queen effect
    - often hypercompetitive
  • (1) Two ways of strategizing according to Burgelman

    - induced (internal)
    - autonomous (capabilities)
  • (1) Morgan defines two forms of organizations

    - mechanistic organization
    - organic organization
  • (2) Two basic mechanisms of learning

    - learning by doing (trial & error)
    - organizational search
  • (2) Variation in organizational learning rates can be caused by (3)

    - organizational forgetting
    - turnover
    - knowledge transfer (inter / intra organizational learning)
  • (2) Two streams of literature in the behavioral theory of R&D and innovation

    - development stage: developing the innovation
    - decision-making stage: launching a product incorporating the innovation
  • (2) Four dimensions of a core capability

    - knowledge & skills (embodied in people)
    - technical systems (embedded in technical systems)
    - managerial systems (incentive and reward systems)
    - value & norms (value assigned within the company to the content and structure of knowledge)
  • (2) According to Levinthal & March (1993), organizational learning is limited by (2)

    - interpretation of experience
    - self-limiting properties of learning
  • (2) Two major mechanisms to facilitate learning

    - specialization
    - simplyfication
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