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Direct linkAnna Helena Zgrzywa-Ziemak; Katarzyna Anna Walecka-Jankowska; Joanna Zimmer – Learning Organization, 2025
Purpose: The paper aims to investigate the importance of leadership -- distributed leadership (DL) -- for the relationship between organizational learning (OL) and business sustainability (BS). Design/methodology/approach: Extensive literature research was carried out to investigate the relationship among leadership, OL and BS. Two theoretical…
Descriptors: Organizational Learning, Power Structure, Participative Decision Making, Sustainability
Nerland, Monika – Learning Organization, 2022
Purpose: The aim of this invited paper is to explore how more complex epistemic environments generate opportunities and challenges for organizational learning in professional realms. Based on these explorations, a second aim is to discuss whether there are specific conditions in Nordic working life that facilitates or restricts such learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Learning, Epistemology, Power Structure
Batt-Rawden, Victoria H.; Traavik, Laura E. M. – Learning Organization, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore what contributes to egalitarian teams and facilitates for team learning in professional service teams. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative case study, including 41 in-depth interviews (n = 18) of professional service team members and managers in one of Nordics largest professional service…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Generational Differences, Humor, Interpersonal Relationship
Bogolyubov, Pavel – Learning Organization, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to provide an overview of the history, the present and the future or the learning organization as a concept and a practical approach, from the perspective of Professor John Burgoyne. Design/methodology/approach: This conversation piece follows the development of the concept from its early days into the current debates and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Culture, Organizational Change, Adjustment (to Environment)
Finnestrand, Hanne – Learning Organization, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to demonstrate how the Nordic model, featuring highly regulated trade union-employer collaboration, has enabled the building of learning organizations through a co-generative learning model involving both practitioners and action researchers. Design/methodology/approach: A literature search on the Nordic sociotechnical…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Unions, Employers, Cooperation
Flood, Robert L.; Romm, Norma R. A. – Learning Organization, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to give practical insights into the systemic approach to organizational learning "triple loop learning" (TLL; introduced in Part I) by reflecting on a facilitated research-and-intervention undertaken in South Africa as part of the "500 Schools Project". Design/methodology/approach: The…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Organizational Culture, Learning, Systems Approach
Challenges to the Learning Organization in the Context of Generational Diversity and Social Networks
Kaminska, Renata; Borzillo, Stefano – Learning Organization, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the challenges to the emergence of a learning organization (LO) posed by a context of generational diversity and an enterprise social networking system (ESNS). Design/methodology/approach: This study uses a qualitative methodology based on an analysis of 20 semi-structured…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Generational Differences, Diversity (Institutional), Social Networks
Filstad, Cathrine; Simeonova, Boyka; Visser, Max – Learning Organization, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the crossing of knowledge and power boundaries within a bureaucratic organization by using enterprise social media (ESM). (Carlile's 2002) boundary crossing framework is used to guide this research. Design/methodology/approach: This is a qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews and…
Descriptors: Social Media, Administrative Organization, Qualitative Research, Semi Structured Interviews
Santos, Jane Lucia Silva; Steil, Andrea Valéria – Learning Organization, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to describe and analyze organizational learning processes and power dynamics during the adoption and use of an information system (IS) at a Brazilian public organization. Design/methodology/approach: A case study was chosen as the research method. Data were gathered from documents and interviews with key informants.…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Information Systems
Göktürk, Söheyda; Bozoglu, Oguzhan; Günçavdi, Gizem – Learning Organization, 2017
Purpose: Elements of national and organizational cultures can contribute much to the success of error management in organizations. Accordingly, this study aims to consider how errors were approached in two state university departments in Turkey in relation to their specific organizational and national cultures. Design/methodology/approach: The…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, College Administration, Power Structure, Feedback (Response)
Garavan, Thomas N.; Carbery, Ronan; Murphy, Eamonn – Learning Organization, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to explore strategies used by communities of practice (CoPs) managers when managing intentionally created CoPs. Design/methodology/approach: Four intentionally created CoPs in Ireland are explored, using a qualitative research design with data from observation, interviews and analysis of documents. Findings:…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Knowledge Management, Administrator Role, Administration
De Loo, Ivo – Learning Organization, 2006
Purpose: To highlight the relevance of management control in action learning programs that aim to foster organizational learning. Design/methodology/approach: Literature review plus case study. The latter consists of archival analysis and multiple interviews. Findings: When action learning programs are built around singular learning experiences,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Experiential Learning, Administrators, Organizations (Groups)
Pemberton, Jon; Mavin, Sharon; Stalker, Brenda – Learning Organization, 2007
Purpose: This paper seeks to surface less positive aspects of communities of practice (CoPs), regardless of emergent or organisationally managed, grounded in political-power interactions. Examples are provided from the authors' experiences of a research-based CoP within UK higher education. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is primarily…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Political Issues, Politics of Education, Researchers
