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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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