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Torbjørn Hekneby; Trude Høgvold Olsen – Learning Organization, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to conceptualize the role of leadership in organizational learning processes in multinational companies (MNCs). The authors present a model describing how managers in an MNC facilitated transitions between sub-processes of organizational learning at several organizational levels. Design/methodology/approach: The authors…
Descriptors: Leadership, Organizational Learning, Corporations, Global Approach
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Chen, Si; Cuervo, Javier Calero – Learning Organization, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to focus on determining the influence of transformational leadership on work engagement as mediated by employee motivation. Design/methodology/approach: The research findings are based on a quantitative analysis of a survey of 443 full-time employees working in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Great Bay Area (GBA) of China.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employees, Motivation, Work Attitudes
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Lissillour, Raphael; Rodriguez-Escobar, Javier Alfonso – Learning Organization, 2023
Purpose: Balancing exploration and exploitation is a strategic challenge for technology-based companies striving to successfully implement ambidexterity in rapidly changing markets. This study aims to look at the extent in which corporate universities can be instrumental in the cross-functional deployment of the resources, capabilities and…
Descriptors: Corporate Education, Universities, Organizational Learning, Foreign Countries
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Sun, Yixin; Hong, Jacky – Learning Organization, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to examine how expatriates' knowledge can be adopted to transform the mental models at the subsidiary level and develop a sustainability-driven learning organization in the context of emerging multinational enterprises (EMNEs). Design/methodology/approach: Through an inductive interpretive analysis of three Haier…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Foreign Nationals, Knowledge Level, Organizational Change
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Tsang, Eric W. K. – Learning Organization, 2017
Purpose: The first purpose of this short essay is to respond to Howells and Scholderer's (2016) harsh critique that organizational unlearning is a superfluous concept. The second purpose is to establish a relationship between organizational unlearning and the learning organization. Design/methodology/approach: To respond to Howells and…
Descriptors: Learning, Organizational Change, Organizational Culture, International Cooperation
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Lindseth Bygdås, Arne – Learning Organization, 2014
Purpose: The literature on knowledge transfer is dominated by a one-way transmission model logic where knowledge is captured and transferred from one source to another, assuming the source and receiver resemble each other and have some common knowledge. The social learning processes, what is learned and the phases and sequences of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Management, Learning Processes, Socialization
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Cheung, Che Keung; Geng, Shuang; Chuah, Kong Bieng; Chau, Yiu Chung; Kwong, Kar Fai – Learning Organization, 2016
Purpose: This paper aims to present the result of the pilot run of a research project which aims at evaluating the applicability of project-based action learning (PAL) to shop floor organizational learning (OL) component in a manufacturing company in Dongguan, China. How the PAL framework was introduced and implemented is described. The factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Vocational Education, Pilot Projects
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Zhou, Wencang; Hu, Huajing; Shi, Xuli – Learning Organization, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for studying organizational learning, firm innovation and firm financial performance. Design/methodology/approach: This paper examines the effects of organizational learning on innovation and performance among 287 listed Chinese companies. Findings: The results indicate a positive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Workplace Learning, Organizational Development, Innovation
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Breunig, Karl Joachim – Learning Organization, 2016
Purpose: This empirical paper aims to assess how social media can foster workplace learning within a globally dispersed project environment. In general, there are few studies on the use of social media in organizations, and many of these emphasize on issues related to knowledge transfer. Although learning traditionally has been as acquisition of…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Social Media, Case Studies, Web Sites