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Center
for Organizational Learning, Innovation and Performance
Current
Research 2005-2006
- “The Contingent
Effects of Transactive Memory: When Is it More Beneficial to Know
What Others Know,” coauthored
by Yuquing Ren (Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University),
Kathleen Carley (Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University) and
Linda Argote (Tepper, Carnegie Mellon University) was accepted for
publication in Management Science.
The work is co-funded by the Army Research Institute and
the Center.
- “The Effect of
Information Technology on Knowledge Depreciation and Transfer,”
coauthored by Michael J. Ashworth (Computer Science,
Carnegie
Mellon
University
), Linda Argote (Tepper,
Carnegie
Mellon
University
), and Tridas Mukhopadhyay (Tepper,
Carnegie
Mellon
University
), is co-funded by the National Science Foundation and the Center.
Research was presented at the Annual INFORMS (Institute for
Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Meeting in
November 2005.
- “Absorptive
Capacity Revisited: External Knowledge, Social Networks and Firms
Innovative Capabilities,” a doctoral dissertation successfully defended by Marco
Tortoriello (Tepper,
Carnegie
Mellon
University
), a Research Fellow at the Center.
The dissertation was chaired by Professor Bill McEvily.
- “Organizational
Learning and Forgetting: The Effect of Turnover and Structure,”
coauthored by Rukmnini Rao (IBM) and Linda Argote (Tepper,
Carnegie
Mellon
University
).
- “Organizational
Learning: Review and Future Directions,” by Linda Argote (Tepper, Carnegie Mellon
University) and Gergana Todorova (Tepper, Carnegie Mellon
University) is being prepared for the International Review of
Industrial and Organizational Psychology.
Past
Research Projects 2004-2005
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" Individual Experience and Experience Working Together: Predicting
Learning Rates from Knowing Who Knows What and Knowing How to Work
Together," coauthored by Ray
Reagans (Graduate School of Business, Columbia University ), Linda
Argote (Tepper, Carnegie Mellon University), Daria Brooks (
Northwestern University Hospital and Children’s Memorial Hospital ). This project examines the effects of different types of
experience (individual, group, organizational) on organizational
learning and performance improvements in a teaching hospital.
Published in 2005 by Management Science, 51,
869-881.
·
"Social Identity and Knowledge
Transfer Across Groups,"
coauthored
by Aimée A. Kane (Leonard N. Stern School of Business , New York
University), Linda Argote (Tepper,
Carnegie
Mellon
University
), John Levine (Department of Psychology,
University
of
Pittsburgh
). This project, which is jointly funded by the Decision, Risk
and Management Sciences (DRMS) program of the National Science
Foundation (NSF) examines how sharing a superordinate identity affects
knowledge transfer across groups.
A study from this line of work was published in the January
2005 issue of Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes,
96, 56-71.
·
"Information Technology and
Organizational Learning: An Empirical Analysis," coauthored
by Michael J. Ashworth ( School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
University), Linda Argote (Tepper, Carnegie Mellon University), Tridas
Mukhopadhyay (Tepper, Carnegie Mellon University). This project, which
is jointly funded by the Innovation and Organizational Change (IOC)
program of the National Science Foundation, examines how the
introduction of technology affects organizational learning in multiple
groups at a financial services firm.
An initial paper from this line of work was published in the
2004 Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference on
Information Systems (pp. 11-21) and was presented at their annual
meeting in December 2004.
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