This work offers an overview of recent formalizations of organizational capabilities and learning. We first present the main characteristics both of NK models and of the approach based on Classifier Systems, focusing on their early applications to organization studies. We then discuss how the use of these models has contributed, in the recent years, to the formal analysis of the development and change of firm’s dynamic capabilities by improving our understanding of processes of organizational learning and adaptation, and of the relationship between cognitive and governance issues.
The formalization of organizational capabilities and learning: results and challenges
Giovanni Dosi
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Marco Faillo
Department of Economics and Management, University of Trento
Virginia Cecchini Manara
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna
Luigi Marengo
Department of Business and Management, LUISS
Daniele Moschella
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna