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Conference on

Identity, Innovation and Organizational Learning

Friday, June 8^th and Saturday, June 9^th

 

Linda Argote                                     Aimée A. Kane

Tepper School of Business               Stern School of Business

Carnegie Mellon University               New York University

argote@cmu.edu                             akane@stern.nyu.edu

 

The ability to innovate or create new knowledge, to retain that knowledge and to transfer it effectively are key to the success of organizations and societies.   The conference will examine factors fostering innovation and organizational learning with particular attention to the role of identity.  A shared identity, or sense of belonging to the same social group, can have a powerful effect on innovation and knowledge sharing.  The conference will bring together scholars from a variety of disciplines including organizational behavior, psychology, sociology and strategic management.  The conference, which is co-funded by the Carnegie Bosch Institute for Applied Studies in International Management and the Center for Organizational Learning, Innovation and Performance at Carnegie Mellon University , will provide a forum for scholars to share research findings, identify common themes and chart future directions. For more information please contact Jennifer Kukawa (jkukawa@andrew.cmu.edu, 412.268.5043).  Conference is by invitation only

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Linda Argote to give Keynote Speech at mini Conference "On the Barriers to Intra- and Interfirm Knowledge Transfer " sponsored by the Center for Strategic Management and Globalization, Copenhagen Business School (June 2007) 

     Further information at www.cbs.dk/smg

 

 

 

 

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Fulbright Scholar joins Center (August 2006)

            Ella Miron-Spektor is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in in the Center for Organizational Learning, Innovation and Performance at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University .  Ella received a Fulbright award to support her post-doctoral studies and research. She is about to receive her PhD in Behavioral and Management Sciences, from the Technion- Israeli Institute of Technology, where she also completed her M.Sc. in Industrial Psychology (2003). Both her M.Sc. and PhD were conducted under the supervision of Professor Miriam Erez and Dr. Eitan Naveh. Ella's research focuses on the paradox of innovation, and suggests that innovation requires balancing exploration and exploitation as it encompasses both the creation of novel and appropriate ideas as well as their implementation. In a programmatic multilevel study, she tests for the competing vs. complementary relationships of the personal attributes and cultural values that lead to idea generation and implementation, and for their effects on innovation at the individual, team and organizational unit levels.

 

Updated September 20 2006