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Embodied cognition, organization and innovation

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Nooteboom, Bart (Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research)

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This chapter explains and employs a constructivist, interactionist theory of knowledge that has come to be known as the perspective of 'embodied cognition'. That view has roots in earlier developmental psychology, and in sociology, and more recently has received further substance from neural science. It yields a basis for a cognitive theory of the firm, with the notion of cognitive distance between people, the resulting view of organization as a cognitive focusing device, the need for external relations with other organizations to compensate for organizational myopia, and the notion of optimal cognitive distance between firms for innovation by interaction.

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Paper provided by Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research in its series Discussion Paper with number 38.

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D21 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior
L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure
M14 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting - - Business Administration - - - Corporate Culture; Social Responsibility
O31 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
O32 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D

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  1. Bart Nooteboom, 2004. "Governance and competence: how can they be combined?," Cambridge Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 28(4), pages 505-525, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Nooteboom, B. & Vanheverbeke, W.P.M. & Duysters, G.M. & Gilsing, V.A. & Oord van den, A,J,, 2005. "Optimal cognitive distance and absorptive capacity," ECIS Working Papers 05.05, Eindhoven Centre for Innovation Studies, Eindhoven University of Technology. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Gilsing, Victor A. & Nooteboom, Bart, 2005. "Density and strength of ties in innovation networks : an analysis of multi-media and biotechnology," Discussion Paper 41, Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
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