The Intellectual Traditions
Another major step forward in the field can be seen in the intellectual traditions feeding into it. At the outset, publications came predominantly from management scientists with a grounding in psychology, political science, or economics. These scholars were dissatisfied with the models at that time, which were dominated by assumptions of hyper rationality. They therefore turned to concepts from psychology to describe processes of decision making and learning. The field of organizational learning soon attracted scholars from other areas such as sociology and organization studies, leading to a large variety of models. They too, often borrowed from psychology to de scribe
organizational learning. Later, scholars used concepts from relatively wide range of a disciplines, including anthropology. During the late 1990s, interest in knowledge management emerged and came to expand the intellectual territory The process of including other disciplines continues. The interest in knowledge management has been closely linked to discussions about competitiveness, a factor that may be