It is clear that individuals do indeed learn within the context of organizations, that this context influences the character of that learning and, in turn, that such learning can have operational consequences for the activities of the organization….In drawing on individual cognition as a way of understanding organizational phenomena, we must take cake not to lose sense of the “as if” quality of the metaphor, forgetting that organization and individuals are not the same sorts of entities. The nature of the difference, as we will argue later, bears on how each can be understood to learn.