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May the Force of Lifelong Learning Be with You -- Sustainable Organizational Learning in HEIs Meeting Competence Needs in Industry
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Kristina M. Eriksson; Liselott Lycke – Learning Organization, 2025
Purpose: Technological advancements and global societal changes reshapes manufacturing industry emphasizing needs for competence development of industrial professionals. The purpose of this paper is to study how organizational learning supports the development of academic structures, creating agile and sustainable formal educational models meeting…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Organizational Learning, Sustainability, School Business Relationship
The Academic Non-Consultation Phenomenon Revisited: A Research Agenda
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Nguyen, Nhien; Hansen, Jens Ørding – Learning Organization, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to revive interest in the question, never definitively answered, which Stephen Watson raised in the title of his 2000 paper, "Why is it that management academics rarely advise on their own institutions?" It is argued that finding the answer to the question would not only be interesting in and of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Higher Education, Business Schools, Organizational Theories
Error Management Practices Interacting with National and Organizational Culture: The Case of Two State University Departments in Turkey
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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)
What It Takes to Be a Superior College President
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Friedman, Hershey Harry; Kass-Shraibman, Frimette – Learning Organization, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine established leadership paradigms in the context of institutions of higher education. The old ways of running a college, which might have worked several decades ago, no longer work in the age of flux characterized by super-fast breakthroughs due to technology and the internet. Organizational change…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Leadership Qualities, Transformational Leadership, Change Agents
The Governance of Organizational Learning: Empirical Evidence from Best-Practice Universities in Germany
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Lauer, Sabine; Wilkesmann, Uwe – Learning Organization, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to link two modes of governance (transactional and transformational) to organizational learning by examining the example of academic teaching. Consequently, the "transformational" strategies of best practices that have been used by German universities to achieve teaching excellence are interpreted as…
Descriptors: Governance, Best Practices, Universities, College Faculty
Universities: Can They Be Considered as Learning Organizations?: A Preliminary Micro-Level Perspective
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Bak, Ozlem – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore a department in a UK higher education (HE) institute based on Senge's five characteristics of learning organizations. Design/methodology/approach: In this study, a case study method was utilized. The case study entailed two lines of enquiry: a questionnaire, which was distributed to a UK…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Institutional Characteristics, Organizational Culture