A Conference on Organizational Learning at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Spring l989

该奖项支持召开一次研究会议，讨论组织如何学习和适应的关键但不被理解的过程，以及为什么一些组织陷入似乎无法学习和改变的惯性。对组织学习的洞察将影响与组织分析相关的几个学科中关于组织的理论发展。它还将对组织中的设计创新和自我更新过程产生重要影响(特别是在半导体行业等需要快速学习才能生存的情况下)。由此产生的论文卷将致力于纪念詹姆斯·G·马奇对组织理论和组织决策领域的贡献。

This award supports a research conference on the critical but ill understood process of how organizations learn and adapt and why some organizations are gripped by inertial seemingly unable to learn and change. Insights into organizational learning will influence theoretical developments about organizations in several disciplines concerned with the analysis of organizations. It will also have important implications for designing innovation and self renewal processes in organizations (in particular where fast learning is required for survival such as in the semi-conductor industry). The resulting volume of papers will be dedicated to honoring the contributions of James G. March to the field of organization theory and organizational decision making.