Ideology in Vicarious Learning-Related Communication

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lamberg, Juha-Antti; Luoma, Jukka
• 署名单位: University of Jyvaskyla; Aalto University
• 刊物名称: ORGANIZATION SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1047-7039
• DOI: 10.1287/orsc.2020.1378
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 708-730
• 关键词: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT; vicarious learning; BUSINESS HISTORY; retail industry; COMMUNICATION; ideology

摘要

Organizations often learn vicariously by observing what other organizations do. Our study examines vicarious learning-related communication through which individuals share their observations with other organizational members. Most students and members of present-day organizations would expect that this communication is driven by a prodevelopment logic-that communication serves the purpose of organizational improvement and competitiveness. Our unique historical evidence on learning-related communication over multiple decades shows that the subjective and collective attitude toward prodevelopment communication may be ideologically conditioned. Prodevelopment communication is the norm in capitalist organizations, but competing ideologies may emphasize other goals higher than organizational development. Consequently, increasing challenges to capitalism as the ideological basis of economic organization can have deep impacts on how organizations learn and produce innovations in the future. Copyright (C) 2020 The Author(s).