Sub-theme 37: Strategic Learning in Practice: Understanding the Complexity of Organizational Learning
Convenors:
Barbara Müller-Christensen, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Elena P. Antonacopoulou, University of Liverpool Management School, UK
Wolfgang H. Güttel, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Session I: Thursday, July 04, 09:00 to 10:30, Decelles, 4th floor, Section Sud, Magog
Introduction: Strategic Learning & Changing in Practice
Chair: Barbara Müller, Elena Antonacopoulou and Wolfgang H. Güttel
Monique Goepel
Organizational usability – A case study
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Martina Eberl and Joakim Netz
Session II: Thursday, July 04, 11:00 to 12:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Organizational Learning & Unlearning - Room: Decelles, 4th floor, Section Nord, Mont-Laurier
Chair: Barbara Müller
Cécile Godé and Isabelle Bouty
Turnover and coordination in extreme situations: Collective and organizational learning in a French air display squadron
Crispin Coombs, Donald Hislop, Julie Holland, Sara Bosley and Esmeranda Manful
The heterogeneity of individual unlearning: Managerial unlearning within the UK's National Health Service
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Tania Pereira Christopoulos
Victor Meyer Jr., Carlos Motta and Lucilaine Pascuci
Improvisation and learning in a complex setting: The case of the emergency room
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Nicole Sprafke
Parallel Stream B: Strategic Learning Architecture - Room: Decelles, 4th floor, Section Sud, Magog
Chair: Wolfgang H. Güttel
Karin Link and Wolfgang H. Güttel
Managing learning paradoxes: Insights from the trade-off between arts and commerce
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Adriana Takahashi
Paola Perez-Aleman and Yuanyuan Wu
The stage-based strategic learning model in Canadian biotechnology firms
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Cornelis Vincent Heij
Sven Laudien and Jörg Freiling
From entrepreneurs to managers: Time-related transition in the process of new venture internationalization
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Charlotta Sirén
Session III: Thursday, July 04, 16:00 to 17:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Sense-Making & Organizational Learning - Room: Decelles, 4th floor, Section Nord, Mont-Laurier
Chair: Elena Antonacopoulou
Marina Figueiredo and Sergio Luis Seloti Jr.
Sensemaking and learning in practice: The case of transmission of practical know-how in a candy factory in southern Brazil
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Crispin Coombs and Donald Hislop
Annika Lorenz
Learning from experience in strategic decision making settings
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Victor Meyer Jr. and Carlos Motta
Barbara Müller-Christensen
Let's make sense. Understanding the complexity of learning and knowing practices to change organizations by analyzing an organization's
memory
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Paddy O'Toole
Parallel Stream B: Defensive Routines & Learning from Failure - Room: Decelles, 4th floor, Section Sud, Magog
Chair: Wolfgang H. Güttel
Thomas Roulet and Kristina Dahlin
Having learned a lot or having a lot to learn? Exploring heterogeneity in firm learning
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Christian Garaus
Mariacristina Bonti, Enrico Cori and Fabio Fraticelli
Overcoming inertia in innovation networks: Evidence from Italian SMEs
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Irina Koprax
Yumei Yang, Davide Secchi and Fabian Homberg
Investigating organizational defensive routines and organizational learning: A neglected issue
Session IV: Friday, July 05, 09:00 to 10:30, Decelles, 4th floor, Section Sud, Magog
Strategic Learning & Changing in Practice
Chair: Barbara Müller, Elena Antonacopoulou and Wolfgang H. Güttel
Patrick Cohendet, Chahira Mehouachi and Laurent Simon
Managing the interplays of exploration and exploitation through organic ambidexterity: case of the video game industry
Amalia Susana Creus and Agustí Canals
Learning in collaboration: Making sense of the ATLAS experiment at CERN through individuals' perspective
Tatjana Kazakova and Daniel Geiger
Exploring strategic learning: Uncovering the essence of organizational heuristics
Martina Eberl and Joakim Netz
Muddling through alliances to portfolios: Learning systemic responsibility for collaboration-capabilities
Group Discussion:
Overview, Status quo & future directions
Overview, Status quo & future directions
Session V: Friday, July 05, 14:00 to 15:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Competence Development - Room: Decelles, 4th floor, Section Nord, Mont-Laurier
Chair: Barbara Müller
Adriana Roseli Wünsch Takahashi and André Luiz Fischer
Towards an understanding of organizational learning processes in development of competences
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Sergio Luis Seloti Jr.
Marc Krautzberger, Harald Tuckermann and Johannes Rüegg-Stürm
"He's been to a management development program, but he'll calm down soon" – Management learning programs as strategic episodes
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Monique Goepel
Nicole Sprafke
Dynamic capabilities and job design: Applying employee empowerment to organizational renewal
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Krista Pettit
Parallel Stream B: Strategic Learning - Room: Decelles, 4th floor, Section Sud, Magog
Chair: Elena Antonacopoulou
Cornelis V. Heij, Henk W. Volberda and Frans A.J. van den Bosch
How to leverage the impact of technological knowledge on product and service innovations: The complementary effect of management
innovation
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Nicole Bischof
Irina Koprax, Christian Garaus and Wolfgang H. Güttel
Fly on the wings of R&D: A dynamic perspective on organizational ambidexterity
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): David Spicer
Simcha Jong and Enrico Forti
Strategic discipline in technology ventures
Session VI: Saturday, July 06, 09:00 to 10:30
- Parallel Stream -
Parallel Stream A: Learning Transfer - Room: Decelles, 4th floor, Section Nord, Mont-Laurier
Chair: Barbara Müller
Krista Pettit
Collective psychological ownership: An important latent contextual factor in knowledge transfer
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Annika Lorenz
Tania Pereira Christopoulos, Reinhold Steinbeck, Maria-Luisa Trindade Bestetti and Marlei Pozzebon
Learning as a negotiation process: Institutionalizing changes through innovation and participative practices
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Thomas Schumacher and Johannes Rueegg-Stürm
Parallel Stream B: Strategic Change - Room: Decelles, 4th floor, Section Sud, Magog
Chair: Wolfgang H. Güttel
Ângela França Versiani, Ana Magalhaes, Samir Lótfi Vaz and Sérgio Fernando Rezende
Strategy-making and organizational learning: How are they interrelated?
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Daniel Geiger and Tatjana Kazakova
Charlotta Sirén and Marko Kohtamäki
Stretching to the limit: The non-linear interaction between strategic planning and strategic learning
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Karin Link
Nicole Bischof
Anchoring strategic change – Motivations and perspectives of involved actors
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Fotini Pachidou and Stefan Häfliger
Session VII: Saturday, July 06, 11:00 to 12:30, Decelles, 4th floor, Section Sud, Magog
Strategic Learning & Changing in Practice
Chair: Barbara Müller, Elena Antonacopoulou and Wolfgang H. Güttel
Christian Garaus
How firms balance exploration and exploitation: The micro-mechanisms of organizational ambidexterity
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Patrick Cohendet, Chahira Mehouachi and Laurent Simon
Fotini Pachidou, Stefan Haefliger and Georg von Krogh
Instead of innovation: How user-embedded learning helps pharmaceutical firms succeed with augmented products
Discussant(s)Discussant(s): Sven M. Laudien