Knowledge and Learning in the Firm 2 vols

'Improving our understanding of how firms evolve and develop requires that we delve into the cognitive science sources of knowledge and learning. This collection of essays promises to do just that.'- Douglass C. North, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USThis authoritative collection provides a wide-ranging survey of the most significant previously published papers on knowledge and learning within organizations. It explores beyond economics into the fields of cognitive science and sociology. The first volume investigates cognition in general and contains a number of classic articles which furnish the fundamentals of 'embodied cognition', the social basis of cognition and categorization. The second volume explores the application of these fundamentals to organizations and includes key papers on organizational, as opposed to individual, cognition and on the related themes of unity and diversity, stability and change.The editor has written an authoritative introduction which provides explanatory information and points the way for future work in this area.