Learning typology for new product development teams: A socio-cognitive perspective.

摘要

Organizational learning (OL) is a popular topic in business and academia. However, no commonly accepted model or framework of organization learning currently exists in the literature. One reason for this is because of inconsistent terminologies and differing definitions. In this research, we develop an organizational learning framework based on the components of social cognition. The framework includes: information acquisition, information dissemination, information implementation, unlearning, thinking, intelligence, improvisation, sensemaking and memory. Further, we develop and test a number of hypotheses in the context of new product development (NPD) teams to show that this framework represents a more complete model of the organizational learning process by assessing the interrelations of socio-cognitive components and their impact on team performance.