Papers by Elena Antonacopoulou
Practising and knowing management: A dialogic perspective
Management Learning, 2012
Developing Learning Managers within Learning Organizations: The Case of Three Major Retail Banks
Organizational Learning and the Learning Organization: Developments in Theory and Practice, 1999
Social and economic …, 2004
Learning Supported Decision-Making 271 Chapter XVII Learning Supported Decision-Making: ICTs as F... more Learning Supported Decision-Making 271 Chapter XVII Learning Supported Decision-Making: ICTs as Feedback Systems Elena P. Antonacopoulou University of Manchester, United Kingdom K. Nadia Papamichail University of Manchester, United ...
The idea of absorptive capacity has emerged as a concept that bridges across the literature on dy... more The idea of absorptive capacity has emerged as a concept that bridges across the literature on dynamic capabilities and organizational learning. But its development has been largely at a conceptual level with major contributions building on secondary data and literature reviews. There are very few studies that seriously address the concept based on fresh primary data. In this paper we apply the idea of absorptive capacity, based primarily on the model of Zahra and George, to case studies drawn from organizations in three different industries: IT, Chemicals and Health Care. The analysis enables us to challenge key features of Zahra and George, but perhaps more significantly to open up new avenues for understanding absorptive capacity in practice.
Practising socializing and institutionalizing
Society and Business Review, 2010
This paper argues that some of the principles of Complexity Science may be very useful in our eff... more This paper argues that some of the principles of Complexity Science may be very useful in our efforts to explore and more fully account for the evolving social complexity that constitutes learning practices in organizations. We review the main principles of complex adaptive systems, steeped in the new science of complexity, and we apply these principles to our analysis of the main dimensions that have been employed so far in studying Organizational Learning (OL). Our analysis provides a new way of conceptualising OL as a complex evolving social system emphasising self-organization, emergence and co-evolution as central dimensions. We compare this new perspective, the complex view of OL, to the two main dominant perspectives of Organizational Learning: the individual and the social view.
Performing change
The Routledge Companion to Organizational Change, 2011
This paper introduces a fresh ,perspective to ,the current Knowledge ,Management debate by explor... more This paper introduces a fresh ,perspective to ,the current Knowledge ,Management debate by exploring ,Knowledge ,Integration and ,Dis-integration practices. These issues are relatively under-researched in ,studies of organisational knowledge ,even though,issues of integration ,seem ,to underpin ,most of the ,knowledge ,processes
Journal of Organizational Change Management, 2001
Develops an understanding of the complex interface between emotion and learning and highlights th... more Develops an understanding of the complex interface between emotion and learning and highlights the special contribution of psychoanalytic insights in understanding individuals' reactions to organizational changes. Explores the extent to which emotions are products of learning, the ways in which emotions facilitate or inhibit learning, and the ways in which learning redefines and re-organizes emotions at both an individual and an organizational level. The analysis shows the interdependence between emotion and learning and highlights many of the subtleties of individuals' reactions to change that current research into individuals' adaptability to organizational change tends to neglect. Reviews some of the implications of the psychodynamic explication of emotion and learning to our understanding of individuals' reactions to organizational change.
DO INDIVIDUALS CHANGE FROM LEARNING, AS WELL AS LEARN FROM CHANGING?
This paper reviews and critiques the relationship between learning and change, which currently un... more This paper reviews and critiques the relationship between learning and change, which currently underpins much current thinking in the field of organisationa l learning. Contrary to the existing focus on the perspective of the organisation, this paper examines the relationship between learning and change with the individual manager as the unit of analysis. Drawing on recent empirical findings from a
Developing Skills in the NHS
There is a growing emphasis, in management research, on the understanding of practice in organisa... more There is a growing emphasis, in management research, on the understanding of practice in organisations. In particular, there is a recognition of the need for new insights into the social issues that are embedded in the way individual actors go about performing their roles. In response to these calls this paper presents empirical findings from a study which deliberately chose
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
Corporate Governance, 2005
In this article a critique of stakeholder theory is presented. The analysis highlights several co... more In this article a critique of stakeholder theory is presented. The analysis highlights several concerns regarding the scientific rigor of this body of knowledge revealing the assumptions and inconsistencies that underpin its main propositions. The discussion shows in particular some of the internal contradictions between, on the one hand, the ideology of social good, and on the other hand, the
The idea of absorptive capacity has emerged as a concept that bridges across the literature on dy... more The idea of absorptive capacity has emerged as a concept that bridges across the literature on dynamic capabilities and organizational learning. But its development has been largely at a conceptual level with major contributions building on secondary data and literature reviews. There are very few studies that seriously address the concept based on fresh primary data.
Narratives and Organizational Dynamics: Exploring Blind Spots and Organizational Inertia
The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 2009
This article aims to demonstrate how narratives have the potential to bring about organizational ... more This article aims to demonstrate how narratives have the potential to bring about organizational inertia by creating self-reinforcing mechanisms and blind spots. Drawing on extensive interview data from a U.K. bio-manufacturing company, the empirical analysis shows how such narratives emerge by constructing a web of related, self-reinforcing narratives reflecting a consistent theme. The analysis demonstrates how the dominant (success) narrative
The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 2011
This article articulates the nature of the challenge of the academic-practitioner "divide" as one... more This article articulates the nature of the challenge of the academic-practitioner "divide" as one of delivering impact. While measurable impact of research on organizational practice is a key indicator of the value of academic work, the authors explore possibilities of sustainable impact by exploiting and maintaining similarities and differences that characterize academic and organizational practice. Drawing on a metaphor of making waves, they suggest that possibilities of academic impact emerge from day-to-day engagements between scholars and organizational practitioners whose efficacy depends on the creation of shared understandings and personal relationships. This also emphasizes the maintenance of differences in perspective, which alert managers and researchers alike to different aspects that lay hitherto concealed in everyday practice. The authors draw insights from organizational development and change research to distil lessons about ways in which collaborative research practice could make waves that energize responses that extend both theory and practice.
Society and Business Review, 2010
Society and Business Review, 2010
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