Organizational Learning Processes and Outcomes: Major Findings and Future Research Directions
梳理组织学习研究演变，将组织学习分为搜索、知识创造、知识保留和知识转移四个过程，探讨经验和组织情境如何影响学习过程与结果，为学者提供未来研究方向。
We trace the evolution of research on organizational learning. As organizations acquire experience, their performance typically improves at a decreasing rate. Although this learning-curve pattern is found in many industries, organizations vary in the rate at which they learn. In order to understand this variation, we separate organizational learning into four processes: search, knowledge creation, knowledge retention, and knowledge transfer. Within each process, we present research on how dimensions of experience and of the organizational context affect learning processes and outcomes. Our goals are to describe major findings and to identify opportunities for future research. The article concludes with a discussion of research directions that are likely to be productive in the future. These directions include investigating how new technological and organizational developments are likely to affect organizational learning. This paper was accepted by David Simchi-Levi, Special Section of Management Science: 65th Anniversary.