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Facilitating Organizations to Dance with the Complex "Logic of Life": Spinning with Paradoxes in Regenerative Appreciative Inquiry Summits
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Johan Lilja – Learning Organization, 2024
Purpose: Organizations will be key to realizing the "transformative change for humanity" now being called for. However, the complexity calls for new ways of facilitating change and organizational learning; it also calls for moving beyond sustainability to develop practices that restore and regenerate the world in which we live. Above…
Descriptors: Organizational Learning, Organizational Change, Sustainability, Transformative Learning
Social Capital, Exploratory Learning and Exploitative Learning in Project-Based Firms: The Mediating Effect of Collaborative Environment
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Sumanarathna, Nipuni; Duodu, Bismark; Rowlinson, Steve – Learning Organization, 2020
Purpose: The study aims to provide suggestions for project-based firms (PBFs) to create value through the development of social capital, collaborative environment and organisational learning (exploratory & exploitative learning). In this regard, a conceptual model is proposed that examines the interrelations between social capital,…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Discovery Learning, Transformative Learning, Cooperative Learning
A Spiritual Perspective on Senge's Five Disciplines: Harmony and Alibaba
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Mak, Carry; Snell, Robin Stanley; Hong, Jacky – Learning Organization, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate Peter Senge's ideas from the perspective of the spiritual ideal of harmony/He ([foreign character omitted]). Design/methodology/approach: Following a literature review of the conceptualization of Senge's fifth discipline and harmony, an appreciative case study of Alibaba is adopted to…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Spiritual Development, Transformative Learning, Organizational Culture
A Learner-Centric Model of Learning Organizations
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Akella, Devi – Learning Organization, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to contribute by placing the missing "learner agent" within the entire process of learning. To understand under what social conditions, it is possible to develop autonomous learners who are conscious of self, able to reflect on their identities, roles and responsibilities, to learn and develop professionally, in…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Models, Organizational Learning, Reflection
A Systemic Approach to Processes of Power in Learning Organizations: Part I - Literature, Theory, and Methodology of Triple Loop Learning
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Flood, Robert L.; Romm, Norma R. A. – Learning Organization, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to introduce a systemic approach to organizational learning "triple loop learning" (TLL) that addresses processes of power. Three equally important foci in our TLL are processes of design, processes of debate and processes of power. The focus on power aims to shift "power over" (power as…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Organizational Culture, Learning, Systems Approach
A Systemic Approach to Processes of Power in Learning Organizations: Part II - Triple Loop Learning and a Facilitative Intervention in the "500 Schools Project"
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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
Antecedents of Absorptive Capacity: A New Model for Developing Learning Processes
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Rezaei-Zadeh, Mohammad; Darwish, Tamer K. – Learning Organization, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide an integrated framework to indicate which antecedents of absorptive capacity (AC) influence its learning processes, and to propose testing of this model in future work. Design/methodology/approach Relevant literature into the antecedents of AC was critically reviewed and analysed with the objective…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Transformative Learning, Discovery Learning, Models