Bounded rationality and organizational learning based on rule changes

Management Learning

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 329-347

  Kieser, Alfred ^a   Koch, Ulrich ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b EnBW Academy   (Germany)

^c EnBW Akademie GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inter specialist learning; Organizational learning; Organizational routines; Organizational rules; Prototyping; Rule based organizational learning; Transactive memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 44849092255     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507608090880     Document Type: Article

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