A state-of-the-art, international handbook for a field of inquiry that is still emergent and yet occupies a central position in contemporary management and organization theory. Marjorie Lyles and Mark Easterby-Smith draw together analyses and critical commentary from the leading experts on organizational learning and knowledge management around the world. Not least in importance is the linkage they make between these two adjacent areas: learning and knowledge are often debated separately despite their close relationship. This important handbook provides a benchmark overview that bridges the two. Management knowledge, the most hotly debated area in business theory, is examined and redefined in relation to the processes of management learning, while the nature of organizational innovation and creativity is explored in light of theories of knowledge. Links are made to existing bodies of theory in the root disciplines of economics, psychology and social theory, while the challenging implications for research and future theories of organization are outlined and discussed.