Organizational learning and knowledge creation
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- How does invention happen? The initial step of organizational learning is knowledge creation. The foundational processes of knowledge creation are little understood. Eminent scholars of organizational learning have made calls for more "fine-grained" examinations of knowledge creation, agreeing that "more theoretical work is needed to further expand on processes through which new organizational knowledge emerges, " and that the knowledge creation process is the area that would "most benefit from more theorizing and empirical research...and is needed to round out our understanding of organizational learning"(Argote & Miron-Spektor, 2011; Tsoukas, 2009). To understand these processes, I embedded over two years with an engineering team that was seeking to invent the world's first 3D printed production car. Immersing in a group that was so explicitly tasked with invention was vital to answering these central questions. In this work, I seek to answer the following question: How do workers intentionally craft experiences through which knowledge is created, particularly in situations where knowledge creation is the central activity of the workers' efforts? I answer this question across three papers, introducing the concept of Wargaming and describing the typology of Learning Episodes as well as the three Experiential Approaches that knowledge workers use to direct their learning activities.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Dixon, Rolf David |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Fischer, Martin, 1960 July 11- |
| Thesis advisor | Fischer, Martin, 1960 July 11- |
| Thesis advisor | Bednar, Jeff |
| Thesis advisor | Hancock, Jeffrey |
| Degree committee member | Bednar, Jeff |
| Degree committee member | Hancock, Jeffrey |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Rolf David Dixon Jr. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/jd729sz4030 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Rolf David Dixon
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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