Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management

The fully revised and updated version of this successful Handbook is welcomed by management scholars world-wide. By bringing together the latest approaches from the leading experts in organizational learning & knowledge management the volume provides a unique and valuable overview of current thinking about how organizations accumulate 'knowledge' and learn from experience. Key areas of update in the new edition are:

• Resource based view of the firm
• Capability management
• Global management
• Organizational culture
• Mergers & acquisitions
• Strategic management
• Leadership

Mark Easterby-Smith is Professor of Management Learning at Lancaster University. He was founder of the international journal Management Learning and is internationally renowned for his published work on organizational learning and management research methods. He is a former President of the British Academy of Managment. Marjorie A. Lyles is Professor of International Strategic Management and the OneAmerica Chaired Professor at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, USA. She has worked in Europe, China, and the USA, and published seminal articles in the Strategic Management Journal, ASQ, Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Review and Journal, and the Journal of Management Studies on strategy and learning.