For this three-volume set the editors have selected many of the most influential articles published since 1984 on the topics of knowledge management and the improvement of organizational learning, developmental learning by individual organizations and the development of populations of organizations. Many of the articles in Volume I are trailblazers in the field of knowledge management; they discuss ways of fostering learning, managing knowledge and extracting economic benefits from knowledge.Volume II investigates how individual organizations learn: topics covered include cognitive versus behavioural learning, interpretation, incremental change and reorientation, and learning from success and failure. Volume III follows the development of the academic study of populations of organizations: it explores both behavioural and cognitive learning processes from the point of view of industries, geographic neighbourhoods and networks. Authoritative introductions to each volume by the editors offer a comprehensive overview and informative discussion of the issues.

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Volume III: Learning by Populations of Organizations AcknowledgementsIntroduction Learning by Organizational Populations Suzanne G. Tilleman and William H. StarbuckPART I BEHAVIORAL LEARNING BY INDUSTRIES 1. Glenn R. Carroll and Michael T. Hannan (1989), 'Density Dependence in the Evolution of Populations of Newspaper Organizations'2. Joel A.C. Baum and Paul Ingram (1998), 'Survival-Enhancing Learning in the Manhattan Hotel Industry, 1898-1980'3. Anne S. Miner, Ji-Yub (Jay) Kim, Ingo W. Holzinger and Pamela Haunschild (1999), 'Fruits of Failure: Organizational Failure and Population-level Learning'4. William P. Barnett and Olav Sorenson (2002), 'The Red Queen in Organizational Creation and Development'PART II BEHAVIORAL LEARNING BY GEOGRAPHIC NEIGHBORHOODS 5. Michael T. Hannan, Glenn R. Carroll, Elizabeth A. Dundon and John Charles Torres (1995), 'Organizational Evolution in a Multinational Context: Entries of Automobile Manufacturers in Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy'6. Dieter Ernst and Linsu Kim (2002), 'Global Production Networks, Knowledge Diffusion, and Local Capability Formation'7. Paivi Oinas and Edward J. Malecki (2002), 'The Evolution of Technologies in Time and Space: From National and Regional to Spatial Innovation Systems'PART III BEHAVIORAL LEARNING BY NETWORKS 8. Ravi S. Achrol (1991), 'Evolution of the Marketing Organization: New Forms for Turbulent Environments'9. Jorg Sydow and Arnold Windeler (1998), 'Organizing and Evaluating Interfirm Networks: A Structurationist Perspective on Network Processes and Effectiveness'10. Sidney G. Winter and Gabriel Szulanski (2001), 'Replication as Strategy'11. Andrew Currah and Neil Wrigley (2004), 'Networks of Organizational Learning and Adaptation in Retail TNCs'PART IV COGNITIVE LEARNING BY INDUSTRIES 12. Paul Attewell (1992), 'Technology Diffusion and Organizational Learning: The Case of Business Computing'13. Michael L. Tushman and Lori Rosenkopf (1992), 'Organizational Determinants of Technological Change: Toward a Sociology of Technological Evolution'14. Michael Carney and Eric Gedajlovic (2002), 'The Co-evolution of Institutional Environments and Organizational Strategies: The Rise of Family Business Groups in the ASEAN Region'15. Michael G. Jacobides (2005), 'Industry Change through Vertical Disintegration: How and Why Markets Emerged in Mortgage Banking'PART V COGNITIVE LEARNING BY GEOGRAPHIC NEIGHBORHOODS 16. Ray Hudson (1999), '"The Learning Economy, the Learning Firm and the Learning Region": A Sympathetic Critique of the Limits to Learning'17. Clive Lawson and Edward Lorenz (1999), 'Collective Learning, Tacit Knowledge and Regional Innovative Capacity'18. Peter Maskell and Anders Malmberg (1999), 'Localised Learning and Industrial Competitiveness'19. Jeremy R.L. Howells (2002), 'Tacit Knowledge, Innovation and Economic Geography'20. Klaus Uhlenbruck, Klaus E. Meyer and Michael A. Hitt (2003), 'Organizational Transformation in Transition Economies: Resource-based and Organizational Learning Perspectives'PART VI COGNITIVE LEARNING BY NETWORKS 21. Arvind Parkhe (1991), 'Interfirm Diversity, Organizational Learning, and Longevity in Global Strategic Alliances'22. Andrew C. Inkpen and Mary M. Crossan (1995), 'Believing is Seeing: Joint Ventures and Organization Learning'23. Julia Porter Liebeskind, Amalya Lumerman Oliver, Lynne Zucker and Marilynn Brewer (1996), 'Social Networks, Learning, and Flexibility: Sourcing Scientific Knowledge in New Biotechnology Firms'24. Bruce Kogut (2000), 'The Network as Knowledge: Generative Rules and the Emergence of Structure'25. John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid (2001), 'Knowledge and Organization: A Social-Practice Perspective'Name Index