Small business owner-managers were grouped in networks in a collaborative approach to management learning. Establishment of these communities of trust helped overcome lack of time and resources for reflection, lack of peer contact, and the expectation that small business managers must be omniscient. (Contains 27 references and 12 additional…

This article proposes a new way of conceptualizing workplace learning as distributed systems of appropriation, development and the use of practice-relevant generalizations fixed within mediational artifacts. This article maintains that these systems change historically as technology and increasingly sophisticated forms of production develop.…

A model for workplace learning is presented, which intends to integrate formal and informal learning with the use of e-learning. An important underlying assumption is that the integration of formal and informal learning is necessary in order to create desirable competencies, from both an individual and an organisational perspective. Two case…