The lost experiment in exploration and exploitation

dc.contributor.authorKavanagh, Donncha
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-27T11:34:38Z
dc.date.available2016-06-27T11:34:38Z
dc.date.issued2011-07
dc.date.updated2014-11-01T17:02:44Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper focuses on James March’s 1991 article on ‘Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning’, which is now the seventh most highly cited paper in management and organisation studies. March’s paper is based on a computer program that simulates the collective and individual learning of a group of fifty individuals. The largely forgotten story that this paper re-calls is the real-life experiment that March, in large part, designed and conducted when he was the new ‘boy Dean’ of the School of Social Sciences in the University of California at Irvine between 1964 and 1969. Taken together, both stories illuminate important moments in the history of organisation studies. The comparison suggests that March’s model, which was probably the first simulation of an organisation learning, also worked to constitute rather than model the phenomenon.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.urihttp://www.egosnet.org/archive/2011_gothenburg/overviewen
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dc.identifier.citationKavanagh, D. (2011) ‘The lost experiment in exploration and exploitation. 27th EGOS Colloquium: Reassembling Organizations, Gothenburg University, Sweden, 6-9 July.en
dc.identifier.endpage30en
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/2787
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEGOSen
dc.relation.ispartof27th EGOS Colloquium
dc.rights© 2011 the authoren
dc.subjectJames Marchen
dc.subjectOrganization studiesen
dc.subjectManagement studiesen
dc.subjectSimulationen
dc.subjectOrganization learningen
dc.titleThe lost experiment in exploration and exploitationen
dc.typeConference itemen
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