This paper uses a cognitive theory of firms and organizations, with a focus on learning and innovation. Here, cognition is a wide notion, including value judgments and corresponding feelings and emotions. This paper focuses on the relation between that cognitive theory and Penrose's theory of...

This paper analyses how organizational routines change. It focuses on the level of learning groups within organizations. The paper starts with a summary of the amp;apos'activity theoryamp;apos' of knowledge used. Next, the notion of scripts is used, to analyse organizational groups as...

This paper offers a meta-theory concerning the relation between the general and the specific in science. This issue was recently called back to attention by Hodgson (2001). A heuristic of discovery, developed in earlier work (Nooteboom 1992, 1996, 1999b, 2000a), is used in an attempt to...