Reinvigorating Maneuver Warfare: An Organizational Learning Analysis Of A Failed Strategic Initiative, Bryan P. Mccoy

Business Administration Dissertations

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Reinvigorating Maneuver Warfare: An Organizational Learning Analysis of a Failed Strategic Initiative.

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BP McCoy

March 2020

Chair: Richard Baskerville

Major Academic Unit: Executive Doctorate in Business

The world is a dynamic and turbulent place. Organizations of all types regularly face the dual challenge of learning from the emerging realities of their environment and using that knowledge to accurately adapt to remain competitive. Often, the changes required to remain competitive demand a significant and irretrievable strategic investment of resources and changes in the status quo of how the organization will function going forward. Such strategic changes are often communicated …

Organizational Learning Through Disruptive Digital Innovation. A Blockchain Implementation, Veneetia Johnson

Business Administration Dissertations

Organizational learning and management are at a transition point because of the shift in disruptive digital innovations (DDI). Organizing axioms are challenged or fundamentally changed by the nature of innovation (Nambisan, Lyytinen, Majchrzak, & Song, 2017). There is widespread recognition that investing in organizational learning drives change and innovation (Linares, 2017). The early research examined DDI and the factors that enable or inhibit it. However, there is a limited amount of research on the relationship between DDI and organizational learning. More specifically, research that is conducted to understand the theoretical relationship between organizational learning and DDI is needed. The phenomenon …

The Impact Of Knowledge Acquisition On Developing A New Launch Strategy Into China, Kristine Sickels

Business Administration Dissertations

Challenged by nominal revenue growth rates in their developed home markets, many MNCs are enticed to drive revenue growth through geographic expansion. Thus, for many firms, launching into emerging markets has become a key growth priority. Because international expansion and the marketing strategy guiding it is always challenging, organizational learning is key. However, researchers have yet to closely examine the relationship between organizational learning and marketing launchstrategy. This research seeks to address that gap. When firms enter new markets, the marketing mix framework represents a subset of decisions they must make. This study analyzes an MNC’s 4Ps (product, price, place, …

The Impact And Implementation Of Learning Intervention On Management And Organizational Practice In A Non-Profit Setting, Keisha Liggett-Nichols

Business Administration Dissertations

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The Impact and Implementation of Learning Intervention on Management and Organizational Practice in a Non-Profit Setting

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Keisha Liggett - Nichols

2013

Committee Chair: Ram Sriram, PhD

Major Academic Unit: Business Administration

The intent of this research is to explore the concepts of organizational learning as it relates to “double loop” learning. Specifically, this research will test the concepts of double loop theory proposed by Argyris, (1976) in a seminal piece, and the paradigm of Evidence-based management (EBM) in the context of a non-profit organization. The paper will review the transition from a single loop learning organization to a …

The Role Of Frontline Leadership In Organizational Learning: Evidence From Incremental Business Process Improvement, Isabelle Nathalie Monlouis

Business Administration Dissertations

What is the role of frontline project leadership in organizational learning in incremental business process improvement (iBPI)? Current literature is sparse on the topic of contributions to organizational learning made by frontline employees leading iBPI projects. To bridge this gap, we use an embedded longitudinal multiple case to study the process of leadership of four frontline iBPI projects. The 4I model (intuiting, interpreting, integrating, and institutionalizing) of organizational learning serves as a theoretical lens to study how the insights originating from frontline employees unfold through group-level integration and organization-level institutionalization.

Mapping the flow of key project events to the relevant …