This study by Janet Fulk, Rebecca Heino, Andrew J. Flanagin, Peter Monge, Kijung Kim, and Wan-Ying Lin sought to provide insight into the collective action necessary to create a viable organizational knowledge-sharing network in the form of an Intranet. Intranets were conceived as offering the functionalities of public goods to organizational members, due to their connective and communal functions.
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Research and Insights from the Center for Effective Organizations
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Exploring the Dynamics of Innovation in Organizational Knowledge Networks
R. Tenkasi and S. Mohrman examine the patterns of action that characterize successful and unsuccessful discretionary, cross-functional, innovation networks in a large health care system.
Seize the Day: Organizational Studies Can and Should Make a Difference
Susan Mohrman explains that the organizational sciences have an unprecedented opportunity to generate information that is useful to organizations and can make a difference in how organizations evolve and in the quality of life of people.
Designing the Innovating Organization
Innovation is one of those curious phenomena which is universally desirable. Jay R. Galbraith argues that when it comes to creating it inside of existing organizations, innovation is one of the most difficult things to produce let alone to master.
The Impact of Team Level Strategic Context on Team Process Innovation
In this study, Mary E. Zellmer-Bruhn and Cristina B. Gibson apply the concept of strategic context (Prahalad & Doz, 1987; Schulz & Jobe, 1997) to the team level and examine how team strategic context relates to team process innovativeness.
The Search for Flexibility: Skills and Workplace Innovation in the German Pump Industry
David Finegold and Karin Wagner find that the existence of a highly skilled workforce may deter the adoption of multifunctional work teams, but that countervailing strengths of the German skill-creation system can potentially help firms develop a new, distinctive German production model.
Learning and Knowledge Management in Team-Based New Product Development Organizations
S. Mohrman, R. Tenkasi, and A. Mohrman, Jr. discuss how configuring organizations into cross-functional new product development teams introduces new knowledge management and learning challenges.
Reward Innovations in Fortune 1000 Companies
This paper by G. Ledford, Jr., E. Lawler III, and S. Mohrman summarizes data on reward innovations from a unique sample of large U.S. firms, based on survey data collected in 1987, 1990, and 1993.
Global Change As Contextual Collaborative Knowledge Creation
R. V. Tenkasi and S. Mohrman argue that the traditional models of international technology transfer may be inadequate to represent the complexities involved in effective global change since they rely on an ‘objectivist’ conception of knowledge, that views knowledge as an objective commodity to be transmitted from source to receiver.
Systems are Not Solutions: Issues in Creating Information Systems that Account for the Human Organization
Edward E. Lawler III, Philip H. Mirvis
1981 (republished 1994)
The Socio-Cognitive Dynamics of Knowledge Creation in Scientific Knowledge Environments
Ramkrishnan V. Tenkasi argues that despite increasing emphasis on knowledge work and knowledge workers, the dynamics of knowledge creation in a knowledge intensive domain such as Research and Development is an elusive topic.
Realizing a Corporate Philosophy
This paper by G. Ledford, Jr., J. Wendenhof, and J. Strahley examines the case of Eaton Corporation, which has developed an innovative process to turn its ideas into day-to-day reality.
