Ethics of Redistribution or Organizational Learning

Ethics of Redistribution

Author: Jouvenel

In this concise and elegant work, first published in 1952, Bertrand de Jouvenel purposely ignores the economic evidence that redistributional efforts sap incentives and are economically destructive. Rather, he stresses the commonly disregarded ethical arguments showing that redistribution is ethically indefensible for, and practically unworkable in, a complex society.

A new introduction relates Jouvenel's arguments to current discussions about the redistributionist state and draws out many of the points of affinity with the works of Buchanan, Hayek, Rawls, and others.

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Organizational Learning: Creating, Retaining and Transferring Knowledge

Author: Linda Argot

Organizational Learning: Creating, Retaining and Transferring Knowledge describes and integrates the results of research on factors explaining organizational learning curves and the persistence and transfer of productivity gains acquired through experience. Chapter One provides an overview of research on organizational learning curves. Chapter Two introduces the concept of organizational 'forgetting' or knowledge depreciation. Chapter Three discusses the concept of organizational memory. Chapter Four argues that analyzing small groups provides understanding at a micro level of the social processes through which organizations create and combine knowledge. Chapter Five describes results on knowledge transfer. Chapter Six discusses various tensions and trade-offs in the organizational learning process.

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What factors account for production differences across a company's pizza franchises? Is the assumption that learning is indefinitely cumulative correct? Such issues have anchored the research of Argote (industrial administration, Carnegie Mellon U.) in studying reasons for organizations' differing learning curves, the neglected area of knowledge depreciation, and knowledge transfer within and across organizations. Theory is grounded in field studies and comparative outcome data on the production of aircraft and ships as well as pizza. She also maps directions for future research on trade-offs in the learning process. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface
1	Organizational Learning Curves: An Overview	1
2	Organizational Forgetting	35
3	Organizational Memory	67
4	Micro Underpinnings of Organizational Learning	99
5	Knowledge Transfer in Organizations	143
6	Tensions in the Learning Process and Future Directions	189
	Index	207