Anecdotes and Antidotes: Organizational Learning Through the Ages
Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: I think its best not to assume familiarity too soon in any relationship. So, I’ll begin with some basic stuff and a global overview of the topic of organizational learning and then some data on the geographic spread of the activity. I won’t provide a comprehensive literature review but I will suggest some extra reading for those interested and would be more than happy to get some feedback from readers. I will leaven this flippancy with some more ‘serious’ stuff in the next article when I will discuss my own research interests in emotional regimes in communities of practice. Hence, the business of business is now learning and organizing the organization as a learning vehicle. Thus, once that learning organization ideal is accepted all else will follow. Professor Reg Revans famously observed that, “Learning inside an organization must be equal to or greater than change outside the organization.” The alternative to that level of learning is, of course, that the organization fails to evolve in time and in sync with the world and, inevitably, dies out.
Author: Tom Cockburn
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1484681652