Journal of Workplace Learning: Volume 35 Issue 6

Guest editorial: Learning capabilities for future work practices

Ann Svensson, Ulrika Lundh Snis, Irene Cecilia Bernhard

How to facilitate manufacturing industry learning from problems: a review on advanced technology problem-solving

Alice Mohlin

The purpose of this paper is twofold: to identify and map contemporary research on advanced technology implementations for problem-solving purposes in the manufacturing industry…

Healthcare professionals learning when implementing a digital artefact identifying patients’ cognitive impairment

Ann Svensson, Linn Gustavsson, Irene Svenningsson, Christina Karlsson, Tina Karlsson

This paper presents findings from a qualitative study of healthcare professionals’ practice, where learning is taking place when a digital artefact is implemented for…

One foot in academia and one in work-life – the case of Swedish industrial PhD students

Irene Bernhard, Anna Karin Olsson

The purpose of this study is to explore the benefits and barriers for learning in industrial PhD education through the perspectives of industrial PhD students. A work-integrated…

Social sustainability for whom? Developing an analytical approach through a tripartite collaboration

Fredrik Sunnemark, Emil Gahnström, Hedvig Rudström, Erika Karlsson, Per Assmo

Social sustainability is a concept frequently referred to in public debates concerning how to construct the governance of future societies. The interpretations of its meaning…

Organizational readiness for smart working: a model and assessment tool

Nunzia Carbonara, Barbara Scozzi, Roberta Pellegrino

This paper aims to provide an easy-to-use yet powerful tool to assess the organizational readiness to adopt effective Smart Working (SW). In light of this main objective, based on…

Mapping representations in qualitative case studies: can we adapt Boisot’s I-Space model?

Clay Spinuzzi

This paper aims to consider ways to visually model data generated by qualitative case studies, pointing out a need for visualizations that depict both synchronic relations across…