Integration of exploitative and exploratory learning: Bureaucracy as a surprise enabler
Development and Learning in Organizations
ISSN: 1477-7282
Article publication date: 6 May 2021
Issue publication date: 3 January 2022
Abstract
Purpose
Extensive collaboration has become critical as increasing complexity of products and processes require firms to access specialized knowledge from diverse sources. Such knowledge provides a rich source of organizational learning that can be best captured and stored through the use of bureaucratic structures to facilitate the necessary large-scale coordination across the firm.
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Findings
Extensive collaboration has become critical as increasing complexity of products and processes require firms to access specialized knowledge from diverse sources. Such knowledge provides a rich source of organizational learning that can be best captured and stored through the use of bureaucratic structures to facilitate the necessary large-scale coordination across the firm.
Originality/value
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Citation
(2021), "Integration of exploitative and exploratory learning: Bureaucracy as a surprise enabler", Development and Learning in Organizations, Vol. 36 No. 1, pp. 36-39. https://doi.org/10.1108/DLO-03-2021-0040
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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