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Cognition Within and Between Organizations
Edited by:
- James Meindl
- Charles Stubbart - Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
- Joseph F. Porac - New York University, USA
September 1996 | 550 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
A hot topic in organizational science in recent years has been how organizational members conceptualize and make sense of their organizational worlds. The growing interest in cognition has coincided, not accidentally, with the increasing legitimacy of a constructionist point of view among organizational scholars.
Bringing together the scholars whose work has fueled these theoretical developments, this volume covers broad ground - from cognitive coordination on the bridge of a Navy ship, to cultural belief systems in the California wine industry. Yet each contributor applies the insights of modern cognitive science to problems of sensemaking and decision-making in organizations, creating a coherent volume and marking the contributions as the cutting edge of cognitive research within and between organizations.
Joseph F Porac, James R Meindl, and Charles Stubbart
Introduction
PART ONE: INDIVIDUAL COGNITION WITHIN ORGANIZATIONS
Mauri Laukkanen
Comparative Cause Mapping of Organizational Cognitions
Nancy Paule Melone
Reasoning in the Executive Suite
Paul C Nutt
The Formulation Processes and Tactics Used in Organizational Decision Making
Richard L Priem
Executive Judgment, Organizational Congruence, and Firm Performance
PART TWO: COGNITION OF GROUPS IN ORGANIZATIONS
Patricia Doyle Corner, Angelo J Kinicki, and Barbara W Keats
Integrating Organizational and Individual Information Processing Perspectives on Choice
C Marlene Fiol
Consensus, Diversity, and Learning in Organizations
Dennis A Gioia et al
Symbolism and Strategic Change in Academia
Richard J Boland Jr, Ramkrishnan V Tenkasi, and Dov Te'eni
Designing Information Technology to Support Distributed Cognition
PART THREE: COGNITION AND LEARNING
Stanley G Harris
Organizational Culture and Individual Sensemaking
Deborah Dougherty
Interpretive Barriers to Successful Product Innovation in Large Firms
Michael D Cohen and Paul Bacdayan
Organizational Routes Are Stored as Procedural Memory
Edwin Hutchins
Organizing Work by Adaptation
Robert A Burgelman
Intraorganizational Ecology of Strategy Making and Organizational Adaptation
PART FOUR: COGNITION BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONS
Raghu Garud and Michael A Rappa
A Socio-Cognitive Model of Technology Evolution
Margaret E Phillips
Industry Mindsets