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Failure learning has emerged as a vibrant interdisciplinary area of research. This book brings 14 scholars together in an edited volume containing failure studies and highlighting learning issues in settings such as freight rail, nurses hand washing routines, operating theatres, aviation, computer programming, Formula 1 racing, and the US Marines.
List of contents
- 1: Kristina Dahlin and You-Ta Chuang: Failure learning: An introduction
- 2: Kristina Dahlin: Models of failure: The many ways to study failure learning
- 3: Sunkee Lee and Jisoo Park: The Double-Edged Sword Of Failure Experiences: The Inverted-U Relationship Between Individuals' Failure Experiences And Subsequent Performance
- 4: You-Ta Chuang, Jessica Good, and Hsin-Hua Hsiung: To Share or not to Share, to Learn or not to Learn: The role of status hierarchy in learning from failure
- 5: Brian Park, David W Lehman, and Rangaraj Ramanujam: Causal Attributions of Organizational Failure to Human and Non-Human Factors
- 6: Michael A. Lapré: Learning from Own and Others' Success and Failure: It Depends on the Context
- 7: Bin Zhao: Why is learning from errors easier said than done?
- 8: Jacob McKnight: Hand Hygiene: Either the easiest way to save lives, or the hardest
- 9: Michal Tamuz: Organizational Learning about Failure through Simulation in Healthcare
- 10: Kristina Dahlin and Joel Baum: My accident or yours? Failure learning in the US freight rail industry and the importance of third parties when learning from others.
- 11: Jerry Guo, Laura Patterson, and Mie Augier: Learning from failure when failure isn't an option
- 12: Kristina Dahlin and Laura Patterson: Managing Failure: Perspectives from the Frontlines
- 13: Kristina Dahlin and You-Ta Chuang: Conclusions. New insights about failure learning and areas of future research
About the author
Kristina Dahlin works in the fields of organizational learning and innovation, analysing muti-year and multi-firm data sets in a variety of industries from tennis rackets, telecommunications to freight rail. She has a PhD in Organizational Behavior and Theory from Carnegie Mellon University and before that she studied Mechanical Engineering at Chalmers in Sweden. She held positions in leading research universities such as Oxford University and the University of Toronto before joining Copenhagen Business School.
You-Ta Chuang received his BSc from Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan, M.B.A from the City University of New York, and Ph.D. from Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He has published journal articles on organizational learning, competition, and LGBTQ+ issues in the workplace. He teaches strategic management and innovation at the School of Administrative Studies, York University, Canada.
Summary
Failure learning has emerged as a vibrant interdisciplinary area of research. This book brings 14 scholars together in an edited volume containing failure studies and highlighting learning issues in settings such as freight rail, nurses hand washing routines, operating theatres, aviation, computer programming, Formula 1 racing, and the US Marines.
