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TABLE 6-2 Learning Styles of Management

Type of Network Rudimentary Learning: Incremental Improvement of Rent-Seeking Skills Individual Learning: Investment of Top Managers' Time and Company's Resources to Master Market Routines Creation of Sustained Organizational Capabilities: Investment in Managerial Team

External networks are small "Fly-by-night" manager
(2)
Entrepreneur--a business loner
(7)
Profit-oriented management
(1)
Networks are extensive and growing Lobbying group,
cronyism
(1)
Charismatic leader with established reputation and extensive informal networks
(3)
Growth-oriented management, often acting as a catalyst for business group creation
(2)

NOTE: The number of enterprises from the sample of 24 firms belonging to the respective category is shown in parentheses.