ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING
IN THE GLOBAL CONTEXT
Organizational Learning
in the Global Context
Edited by
M. LEANN BROWN
University of Florida, USA
MICHAEL KENNEY
Pennsylvania State University, Capital College, USA
MICHAEL ZARKIN
Westminster College, USA
First published 2006 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Organizational learning in the global context
1. Organizational learning 2. Organizational learning - Case studies
I. Brown, M. Leann II. Kenney, Michael III. Zarkin, Michael J. 658.403
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Organizational learning in the global context / edited by M. Leann Brown, Michael Kenney, and Michael Zarkin.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7546-4842-7
1. Organizational learning. I. Brown, M. Leann. II. Kenney, Michael, 1967- III. Zarkin, Michael J.
HD58.82.O7429 2006
302.35--dc22
2006003154
ISBN 9780754648420 (hbk)
ISBN 9781138262669 (pbk)
Contents
M. Leann Brown and Michael Kenney
M. Leann Brown
Paolo Spadoni
Eric A. Morgan
Michael J. Zarkin
Michael J. Oliver
David C. Ellis
Michael Kenney
Brian A. Jackson
William J. Campbell
Lynn Eden
Karen Guttieri
Goran Hyden
M. Leann Brown
M. Leann Brown is an Associate Professor of Political Science/International Political Economy at the University of Florida. Previously, she was a Fulbright European Union Research Fellow, and spent a semester in Brussels affiliated with the Environmental Committee of the European Parliament. She was also Program Coordinator for the International Studies Association. Her current research focuses on how scientific uncertainty and organizational learning affect environmental policymaking in the European Union.
William J. Campbell currently works for Heart of Florida United Way. He is a graduate of the International Development and Public Administration Program at the University of Florida, and was employed for some time in the Government Affairs division of a Washington, DC-based law firm. A lifelong Roman Catholic, he is interested in how dogma deters the Churchs and other principle-driven organizations ability to learn and address constituents needs.
Lynn Eden is Associate Director for Research and Senior Research Scholar at Stanford Universitys Center for International Security and Cooperation. The Cold War and nuclear history, organizational approaches to security, the American state and security policy, and science and technology studies are among her primary research interests. Her most recent book, Whole World on Fire, received the American Sociology Associations 2004 Robert K. Merton Award for best book in science, knowledge and technology.
David C. Ellis is a Visiting Assistant Professor of International Relations at New College of Florida. He holds a masters degree in International Development Studies and International Marketing from The George Washington University, and a PhD from the University of Florida. He studied briefly in Canada, Costa Rica and Syria, and interned with UNICEF in the Dominican Republic. His research interests focus on the relationship between the corporate interests of the United Nations and the concept of the international community, UN peacekeeping, international development, ethnic conflict, and organizational learning theory.
Karen Guttieri teaches in the National Security Affairs Department of the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, California). Previously, she taught at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. Her primary research focus is military operations in civilian environments, including the effectiveness of civil-military operations, military organizational learning from peace operations, and civil-military relations issues in peace implementation.
Goran Hyden is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. He is the author ofMaking Sense of Governance, Governance and Politics in Africa, No Shortcuts to Progress: African Development Management in Perspective, and Beyond Ujamaa in Tanzania: Underdevelopment and an Uncaptured Peasantry. He is also past President of the African Studies Association.
Brian A. Jackson is an Associate Physical Scientist at RAND. Previously, he was a Policy Studies Fellow in the Center for International Science and Technology Policy in the George Washington Universitys Elliott School of International Affairs. His research interests include the technological aspects of national security and counter-terrorism, technology adoption by individuals and organizations, and national science and technology policy. He is the author of more than 20 technical and policy articles and reports in a range of areas, the most recent of which focus on the protective technology needs of emergency responders and the use of technology by law enforcement organizations.
Michael Kenney is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Political Science in the School of Public Affairs at the Pennsylvania State University, Capital College. He has held research fellowships with the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California, and is the author of From Pablo to Osama: Trafficking and Terrorist Networks, Government Bureaucracies, and Competitive Adaptation (forthcoming 2007).
Eric A. Morgan is Assistant Public Defender of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida (Brevard and Seminole Counties). He served a full tour as a US Peace Corps volunteer in Uzbekistan, and is a graduate of the Florida International University Law School.
Michael J. Oliver is currently Professor of Economics at the cole Suprieure de Commerce de Rennes, France and the University of Plymouth Colleges, Jersey in the Channel Isles. His research interests include monetary policy, policy learning and behavioral finance. He has written numerous articles and books on monetary economics and economic history. The Liquidity Theory of Asset Prices, his latest book with Gordon T. Pepper, was published by John Wiley in 2006.
