IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/aea/apandp/v110y2020p187-92.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Knowledge, Stories, and Culture in Organizations

Author

Listed:
  • Robert Gibbons
  • Laurence Prusak

Abstract

Organizations are full of stories; organizational economics, not so much. Rather, organizational economics has little work that conceptualizes the role or measures the incidence of stories in organizations. This shortage concerns us not only because stories are prevalent in organizations but more importantly because we think some stories play a role in organizations that sheds light on why organizations exist and how they might be improved. In brief, we explore the idea that stories in organizations may induce a particular kind of organizational knowledge, of which organizational culture is a leading example.

Suggested Citation

  • Robert Gibbons & Laurence Prusak, 2020. "Knowledge, Stories, and Culture in Organizations," AEA Papers and Proceedings, American Economic Association, vol. 110, pages 187-192, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:110:y:2020:p:187-92
    DOI: 10.1257/pandp.20201091
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.aeaweb.org/doi/10.1257/pandp.20201091
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.aeaweb.org/doi/10.1257/pandp.20201091.ds
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to AEA members and institutional subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1257/pandp.20201091?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Anja Prummer, "undated". "Discrimination in Promotion," Working Papers 905, Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance.
    2. Alistair Macaulay, 2022. "Heterogeneous Information, Subjective Model Beliefs, and the Time-Varying Transmission of Shocks," CESifo Working Paper Series 9733, CESifo.
    3. Gorodnichenko, Yuriy & Kukharskyy, Bohdan & Roland, Gerard, 2024. "Cultural distance, firm boundaries, and global sourcing," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 166(C).

    More about this item

    JEL classification:

    • D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:aea:apandp:v:110:y:2020:p:187-92. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Michael P. Albert (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/aeaaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.