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Direct linkCuel, Roberta – Learning Organization, 2020
Purpose: This paper aims to attempt to provide an overview of the valuable scientific contribution on learning organization in social science from the perspectives of Professor Silvia Gherardi and discusses the evolution of Silvia's work over her long career. Design/methodology/approach: With the collaboration of this leading scholar, Professor…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, College Faculty, Organizational Learning, Social Influences
Styhre, Alexander – Learning Organization, 2009
Purpose: Ethnographic studies of, for instance, laboratory work show that practices never reach a full closure but are always open to contingencies and ambiguities, making it possible to accommodate new empirical findings. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate that this is true also for less "high-brow" work in, for example, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construction Industry, Construction Management, Ethnography
Palmberg, Klara – Learning Organization, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of complex adaptive systems (CAS) from the perspective of managing organizations, to describe and explore the management principles in a case study of an organization with unconventional ways of management and to present a tentative model for managing organizations as CAS--system…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Administrative Organization, Knowledge Management, Figurative Language
Ng, Pak Tee – Learning Organization, 2009
Purpose: In recent years, the new science has become popular in management literature. This involves the use of metaphors from the field of science (e.g. mathematics, chemistry, physics and biology) in the field of management. This paper aims to examine the use of new science metaphors in learning organisation (LO) discourse and research.…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Discourse Analysis, Research Tools, Scientific Concepts
Ortenblad, Anders – Learning Organization, 2005
Purpose: This is a comment for all those writers who claim that organizations cannot learn. The author consistently rejects this notion. Rather the author contends that organizations can learn, in at least two different ways. Design/methodology/approach: The author reviews some of the common arguments against organizational learning, and tries to…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Individual Development, Learning, Cognitive Ability
Turner, Jane; Mavin, Sharon; Minocha, Sonal – Learning Organization, 2006
Purpose: To critique individual learning experiences in organization, explore the role people play in inhibiting learning in organization and explore theories of individual learning as "theories in use", drawing on a metaphor of steps and dance. Design/methodology/approach: Based on a subjective qualitative approach engaging in…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Dance, Figurative Language, Data Analysis
