Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate workplace learning among municipal officers in the high-learning-demanding organizational context of their work practice in the first year of mandate. Design/methodology/approach: A before-and-after quasi-experimental design was used to assess the effect of time of work practice on learning work…

The purpose of this study was to explore the processes and steps that business leaders go through as they champion sustainability initiatives, seeking to understand the learning strategies, knowledge and supports they found, as well as the mindset that helped them. This research contributes to an emerging body of knowledge that addresses the need…

Shows that 22 managers indicated a clear preference for obtaining information about popular management ideas through seminar attendance rather than through reading books. Identifies the semiotic code shaping this preference, charts its regularities and inconsistencies, and uncovers several ironies on how this code is used and understood. (SR)