Diversifying into technical clothing manufacture: a situated learning theory perspective

Nick Theodorakopoulos; Nada  Kakabadse; David Bennett; Catarina  Figueira; Breno Nunes

Diversifying into technical clothing manufacture: a situated learning theory perspective

Nick Theodorakopoulos, Nada Kakabadse, David Bennett, Catarina Figueira, Breno Nunes

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Abstract

An organisation’s ability to internalise external knowledge and learn from various sources in undertaking new product development and/or entering a new market is crucial to its competitive performance. Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to how growth-oriented small firms identify and exploit entrepreneurial opportunities, i.e. take entrepreneurial action, related to such methods of development, in a mature, contracting industry. The latter is particularly relevant to recent discussion and debate in academic and policy-making circles concerning the salvage of the clothing manufacture industry in developed industrialised countries, by intensifying efforts relating to diversification into high value manufacturing sectors. This paper, based on an instrumental case-firm, demonstrates analytically how learning as entrepreneurial action relating to diversifying into /technical clothing – i.e. a high value manufacturing/innovatory sector - takes place, drawing on situated learning theory. It is argued that learning relating to such entrepreneurial action is dynamic in nature and is founded on specific organising principles that foster both inter- and intracommunal learning.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Managing technology-service convergences in the post-industrialized society
Subtitle of host publication	proceedings of the 21st international conference of the international association for management of technology, IAMOT/National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, s. 00464
Editors	T. Khalil, Y. Hosni, S.-C. Hung
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	21st international conference of the international association for management of technology - Hsinchu, Taiwan Duration: 18 Mar 2012 → 22 Mar 2012

Conference

Conference	21st international conference of the international association for management of technology
Abbreviated title	IAMOT 2012
Country/Territory	Taiwan
City	Hsinchu
Period	18/03/12 → 22/03/12

Keywords

communities of practice
high-value manufacturing
technical clothing manufacutre
technological capabilities development
situated learning theory

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Philosophy, theory, and practice of green operations management
Nunes, B., Bennett, D., Shaw, D. & Theodorakopoulos, N., 2012, Managing technology-service convergences in the post-industrialized society: proceedings of the 21st international conference of the international association for management of technology, IAMOT/National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, s. 00464. Khalil, T., Hosni, Y. & Hung, S-C. (eds.).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference output › Conference publication

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Theodorakopoulos, N., Kakabadse, N., Bennett, D., Figueira, C., & Nunes, B. (2012). Diversifying into technical clothing manufacture: a situated learning theory perspective. In T. Khalil, Y. Hosni, & S-C. Hung (Eds.), Managing technology-service convergences in the post-industrialized society: proceedings of the 21st international conference of the international association for management of technology, IAMOT/National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, s. 00464 http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/local_165809.pdf

Theodorakopoulos, Nick ; Kakabadse, Nada ; Bennett, David et al. / Diversifying into technical clothing manufacture : a situated learning theory perspective. Managing technology-service convergences in the post-industrialized society: proceedings of the 21st international conference of the international association for management of technology, IAMOT/National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, s. 00464. editor / T. Khalil ; Y. Hosni ; S.-C. Hung. 2012.

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Theodorakopoulos, N, Kakabadse, N, Bennett, D, Figueira, C & Nunes, B 2012, Diversifying into technical clothing manufacture: a situated learning theory perspective. in T Khalil, Y Hosni & S-C Hung (eds), Managing technology-service convergences in the post-industrialized society: proceedings of the 21st international conference of the international association for management of technology, IAMOT/National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, s. 00464. 21st international conference of the international association for management of technology, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 18/03/12. <http://publications.lib.chalmers.se/records/fulltext/local_165809.pdf>

Diversifying into technical clothing manufacture: a situated learning theory perspective. / Theodorakopoulos, Nick; Kakabadse, Nada ; Bennett, David et al.
Managing technology-service convergences in the post-industrialized society: proceedings of the 21st international conference of the international association for management of technology, IAMOT/National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, s. 00464. ed. / T. Khalil; Y. Hosni; S.-C. Hung. 2012.

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Diversifying into technical clothing manufacture: a situated learning theory perspective

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