Managerial and Organizational Cognition: Theory, Methods and ResearchManagerial and Organizational Cognition: Theory, Methods and Research, edited by Eden Colin Spender J. C.. London: Sage, 1998.

Abstract

The book ‘Managerial and Organizational Cognition: Theory, Methods and Research,’ edited by Colin Eden and J. C. Spender, examines the nature of organizational knowledge, focusing specifically on the ‘level-of-analysis’ problem—that is, what we mean by the concepts of organizational cognition and organizational learning, given that only individuals have brains and think. The book draws on an eclectic set of ideas to examine the role of individual agency in managing the interaction between business organizations and their environments. The edited volume also addresses questions of both levels of analysis and individual agency by suggesting how organizational change can be engineered through the management of cognitive change among individual managers.