Management learning and knowledge transfer in transforming societies: approaches, issues and future directions

Clark, Ed; Geppert, Mike

doi:10.1080/13678860210142137

Cited by 46 publications

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“…In reality, they argued, there are clear limits to the neat packaging of tacit knowhow into codified information, to the transit of management ideas across cultural borders (Dobosz & Jankowicz, 2002;cf. Czarniawska & Joerges, 1996) and to the ability of post-socialist actors to assimilate western practices (Child & Czeglédy, 1996;Clark & Geppert, 2002;Merkens et al, 2001). While some post-socialist managers may be enthusiastic to adopt western ideas without question (Geppert & Merkens, 1999), they are more likely to be sceptical of western knowledge, and sometimes unwilling to implement it (Clark & Geppert, 2006;Simon & Davies, 1996).…”

Section: Organizational Learningmentioning

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Organization theory and the post-socialist transformation: Contributions to organizational knowledge

Soulsby¹,

Clark²

2007

Human Relations

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In unison with the authors of this special issue, we argue that organizational research in European post-socialist contexts over the last 17 years has made a significant and enduring contribution to organization theory. This proposition provides the rationale for the special issue, which focuses on the formative relationship between the body of organizational knowledge forged largely within stable western market-economies and the findings of organizational research conducted within institutionally unstable and ambiguous post-socialist environments. We develop our argument through three phases. First, we seek to clarify the reasons why the context and process of postsocialism have posed special challenges to the conventional wisdom of 'western' organization theory. Second, we review post-socialist organizational research and consider how it has augmented our understanding of organizational structures and processes. Third, we place the five articles that comprise this special issue within this wider context, and outline their main contributions. The findings and lessons from post-socialist research have led organizational scholars to reevaluate many established theoretical propositions, and, by questioning the underlying rationality of organization theory, to explore the possibility of developing a more globally relevant discipline.

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Section: Organizational Learningmentioning

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Organization theory and the post-socialist transformation: Contributions to organizational knowledge

Soulsby¹,

Clark²

2007

Human Relations

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“…Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995, pp.8-9). Second, within the venture itself, there is a process of management learning, referring to the acquisition (or not) and practice of that knowledge by local managers (see Clark and Geppert, 2002). Child (2000) identified two dominant perspectives in the international management literature about institution building: 'low context' and 'high context'.…”

Section: Knowledge Transfer Management Learning and Global Institutionsmentioning

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Knowledge and learning in transnational ventures: an actor‐centred approach

Geppert

Clark

2003

Management Decision

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The aim of this article is to develop the foundations of an actor-centred, processual approach to examining the influence of cross-border knowledge transfer and management learning on transnational institution building in post-socialist countries. We argue that there is a need for more research to understand how key social actors go about (re)structuring, (re)defining and sharing knowledge within new international ventures. We contend that social actors can play a significant role in creating and structuring the 'transnational social space' in which the new venture takes shape, exercising strategic choice that can mediate, adapt or even reject the apparently constraining effects of technical-economic or cultural-institutional factors. The role of social actors is conceptualized as a socio-political sensemaking process, a perspective that would complement the current structuralist bias in the discussion about the emergence of transnational social space in international management research literature.

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“…The economic alliance of communist countries -the Council of Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) -collapsed and the Bulgarian economy lost protected markets, as well as cheap and protected raw materials within the former Soviet bloc. The number of industrial organizations, such as heavy chemicals and steel manufacturers, dropped significantly as they could not compete on the free market (Clark and Geppert 2002). A series of internal reform mistrials also hampered economic development.…”

Section: Economic Changesmentioning

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Achieving styles of Bulgarian managers and politicians: a longitudinal perspective

Gotcheva

Miettinen

2008

Human Resource Development International

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Management learning and knowledge transfer in transforming societies: approaches, issues and future directions

Cited by 46 publications

References 4 publications

Organization theory and the post-socialist transformation: Contributions to organizational knowledge

Organization theory and the post-socialist transformation: Contributions to organizational knowledge

Knowledge and learning in transnational ventures: an actor‐centred approach

Achieving styles of Bulgarian managers and politicians: a longitudinal perspective

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