Recognizing a serious lack of research on routinized individual actions and organizational adaptation in the stability-change paradox, we intend to provide an in-depth explanation of the way in which agile methods affect organizational learning in self-managed, team-based organizations, taking a multi-level evolutionary approach. We explore learning in agile organizations by breaking the analysis of organizational routines down into dif- ferent levels – individual, team and organization – and describing the process of variation, selection and re- tention of routines at each level. Leveraging on multiple case studies, we discuss how team members learn and gain knowledge, from both direct and indirect experience, and analyze how teams develop conceptual frame- works and interpret those experiences. Finally, we discuss how organizational memory develops and how teams in agile organizations adapt simultaneously within an ecological structure that also comprises the changing environment. Our findings reveal substantial flaws in the capacity of agile methods to foster organizational learning.

Annosi, M.C., Martini, A., Brunetta, F., Marchegiani, L. (2020). Learning in an agile setting: A multilevel research study on the evolution of organizational routines. JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH, 110, 554-566 [10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.05.011].

Learning in an agile setting: A multilevel research study on the evolution of organizational routines

Marchegiani, Lucia
2020-01-01

Abstract

Recognizing a serious lack of research on routinized individual actions and organizational adaptation in the stability-change paradox, we intend to provide an in-depth explanation of the way in which agile methods affect organizational learning in self-managed, team-based organizations, taking a multi-level evolutionary approach. We explore learning in agile organizations by breaking the analysis of organizational routines down into dif- ferent levels – individual, team and organization – and describing the process of variation, selection and re- tention of routines at each level. Leveraging on multiple case studies, we discuss how team members learn and gain knowledge, from both direct and indirect experience, and analyze how teams develop conceptual frame- works and interpret those experiences. Finally, we discuss how organizational memory develops and how teams in agile organizations adapt simultaneously within an ecological structure that also comprises the changing environment. Our findings reveal substantial flaws in the capacity of agile methods to foster organizational learning.
2020
Annosi, M.C., Martini, A., Brunetta, F., Marchegiani, L. (2020). Learning in an agile setting: A multilevel research study on the evolution of organizational routines. JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH, 110, 554-566 [10.1016/j.jbusres.2018.05.011].
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