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Embodied Cognition, Organization and Innovation

Nooteboom,B.
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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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Pagination: 30
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2006
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theory of the firm, organizational cognition, learning, innovation, D21 - Firm Behavior: Theory, L22 - Firm Organization and Market Structure, M14 - Corporate Culture ; Diversity ; Social Responsibility, O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives, O32 - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D, SDG 4 - Quality Education
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Nooteboom, B 2006 'Embodied Cognition, Organization and Innovation' CentER Discussion Paper, vol. 2006-38, Organization, Tilburg.
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14602/27494
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