Scientific journal paper
Organizational learning: a discrete choice approach
Orlando Gomes (Gomes, O.);
Journal Title
Journal of Economic and Social Research
Year (definitive publication)
2006
Language
English
Country
Turkey
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Abstract
The idea of organizational learning may be identified as the process through which a firm makes, with an increasing degree of certainty, choices about which strategies to follow. A discrete choice setup is considered and applied to a dynamic process of knowledge accumulation within the firm. The most important results relate to: (i) the determination of a steady state point in which probabilities of choice take constant values; and (ii) the fact that the steady state is not necessarily a stable one. If learning is subject to decreasing returns, stability holds; when knowledge accumulation exhibits increasing returns there is a divergence to a certainty strategy selection result, that is attained, at least asymptotically, in the long run.
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Keywords
Organizational learning,Discrete choice,Memory loss,Knowledge,Bounded rationality
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Funding Reference Funding Entity
POCTI/ECO/48628/2002 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia