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The intent of this review essay is to draw attention to a striking convergence of work on learning being done—separately until now-by students of organizational learning and by psychologists interested in memory and in skilled performance. Issues being raised in the study of organizational learning are nicely complemented by current developments in psychology. They provide both confirmation of what organi-zation theorists have intuited about individuals and a more differentiated understanding of skill-leaming and memory that should enrich organizational theorizing and observation. The plan of the essay is to sketch an interesting example of recent work on both the organizational and psychological sides, then to discuss their points of contact.

In Information and Organizations, Arthur L. Stinchcombe has made a large-scale effort to extract and reframe central organization theory assertions of major figures such as …