Knowledge, Stories, and Culture in Organizations
<jats:p>Organizations are full of stories; organizational economics, not so much. Rather, organizational economics has little work that conceptualizes the role or measures the incidence of stories in organizations. This shortage concerns us not only because stories are prevalent in organizatio...
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| author | Gibbons, Robert Prusak, Laurence |
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| description | <jats:p>Organizations are full of stories; organizational economics, not so much. Rather, organizational economics has little work that conceptualizes the role or measures the incidence of stories in organizations. This shortage concerns us not only because stories are prevalent in organizations but more importantly because we think some stories play a role in organizations that sheds light on why organizations exist and how they might be improved. In brief, we explore the idea that stories in organizations may induce a particular kind of organizational knowledge, of which organizational culture is a leading example.</jats:p> |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1352042021-10-28T04:34:32Z Knowledge, Stories, and Culture in Organizations Gibbons, Robert Prusak, Laurence <jats:p>Organizations are full of stories; organizational economics, not so much. Rather, organizational economics has little work that conceptualizes the role or measures the incidence of stories in organizations. This shortage concerns us not only because stories are prevalent in organizations but more importantly because we think some stories play a role in organizations that sheds light on why organizations exist and how they might be improved. In brief, we explore the idea that stories in organizations may induce a particular kind of organizational knowledge, of which organizational culture is a leading example.</jats:p> 2021-10-27T20:22:27Z 2021-10-27T20:22:27Z 2020 2021-03-23T17:23:23Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/135204 en 10.1257/PANDP.20201091 American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Economic Association American Economic Association |
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