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The situated nature of adaptive learning in organizations (1997)
| Venue: | Organization Science |
| Citations: | 77 - 1 self |
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@ARTICLE{Tyre97thesituated,
author = {Marcie J. Tyre},
title = {The situated nature of adaptive learning in organizations},
journal = {Organization Science},
year = {1997},
pages = {71--83}
}
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Abstract
This paper describes the nature of adaptive learning processes in organizations. We examine the process of problem solving around new manufacturing equipment following field tests and early factory use. We find that adaptation is a situated process, in that different organizational settings (1) contain different kinds of clues about the underlying issues, (2) expose learners to different ideas, and (3) offer different resources for generating and analyzing information. Consequently, actors frequently must move in an iterative fashion between different organizational settings before they can identify the causal underpinnings of a problem and select suitable solutions. This finding adds an additional dimension to the literature on adaptive learning processes, which currently focuses almost exclusively on social knowledge exchange (via discussion, argument, and collaborative "sensemaking"). We propose that theories of adaptive learning should also take into account how actors (both collectively and individually) use their surroundings to understand
Keyphrases
adaptive learning situated nature different organizational setting adaptive learning process iterative fashion field test different idea social knowledge exchange early factory use contain different kind situated process offer different resource expose learner additional dimension select suitable solution underlying issue causal underpinnings
