James G. March helped to create organization theory and a “behavioral theory of the firm”, and he contributed very important insights about decision making and organizational learning. His articles challenge prevalent assumptions and rely on casual observation rather than systematic...

How can a company become sustainably innovative? We propose that the company needs to have organizational forms that achieve a dynamic synthesis of knowledge exploration and exploitation. In this paper, we present the “dynamic fractal organization” as a new organizational model. This model...

Proponents of organizational knowledge creation theory have long recognized the importance of “spaces” for knowledge creation within organizations and, recently, in the eco-system to which the organization belongs. We argue that while knowledge creation in virtual spaces, such as online...

The increasing fragmentation of organization theory seems not to be responding to the challenges and complexities of organizations and society. This article contends that integral theory can make an important contribution to our discipline and presents a metatheory that integrates all previous...

While the field(s) of management theory and the history of modern ideas in management, business education and organizations have many different intellectual roots, the Carnegie Mellon Behavioral trio (James March, Herbert Simon and Richard Cyert) who founded the behavioral perspective on...