Hi everyone, i saw this figure and i'm really struggling to understand it, can anyone please help me. Its about the relationship between experiential learning and incremental behaviour/learning. In the article, they describe it like this "The following figure shows that by implementing experiental knowledge the firm will gain tacit knowledge and this will in turn decrease the perceived uncertainty about the market, which will reduce the need for incremental behaviour. The consequence of this is that there is actually a negative relationship between experiental learning and incremental behaviour (Forsgren, 2002)."
The sign between incremental learning and perceived uncertainty is a + so why is there a decrease? Does this mean that the more one engages in experiential learning, the lesser the incremental behaviour? I would appreciate if someone could explain this to me. Thank you.
That is an excellent observation. There should be a positive relationship between experiential learning and incremental behavior. That is the right direction as it is equally shared in the related literature too! The flow chart also depicts the fact that Experiential Learning increases ones tacit knowledge, and ones tacit knowledge is negatively related to his/her perceived uncertainty. Decreasing perceived uncertainty increases ones incremental behavior. So, there should be a positive relationship between experiential learning and incremental behavior.
What I believe is that the figure is right. As Experiential learning is decreasing perceived uncertainty, there is no need for incremental behaviour. With the same behaviour (action/effort), more results can be achieved by using tacit knowledge as uncertainty is less.
Confusion about this can depend on "incremental learning" today is used mostly (?) as a machine learning term in computer science, but in 2002 it seems to not have had much with AI or machine learning to do at all, more with the ideas of organizational learning (for me still an area for many questions...) of the time, connected maybe to agile frameworks thinking (to work and learn in increments, small steps).
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