The Learning Organization: Volume 29 Issue 4

Corporate memory dynamics in project-based organizations (PBOs): multiple case study in Brazilian engineering design firms and a framework proposal

Leandro César Mol Barbosa, Rodrigo Baroni Carvalho, Chun Wei Choo, Ângela França Versiani, Cristiane Drebes Pedron

This study aims to investigate how the processes of memory acquisition, retention, retrieval and application occur in project-based organizations (PBOs). In this kind of…

Can “organizational unlearning” be the normalizer for purposeful routines in any learning organization? An interview with Prof Eric Tsang

Abhilash Acharya, Bijaya Mishra

This paper was developed with the objective of unravelling the concepts and their applications in the broad areas of organizational learning (OL) and learning organization (LO)…

An integrative learning approach: combining improvement methods and ambidexterity

Gunilla Avby

This paper aims to explore whether the principles behind improvement methods and the underlying learning orientations of ambidexterity have the potential to support the managing…

A moderated-mediation model of individual learning and commitment: part I

Karthikeyan Somaskandan, Savarimuthu Arulandu, Satyanarayana Parayitam

This study aims to develop a conceptual model linking the relationship between individual learning, organizational learning and organizational commitment. A multi-layered…

Crisis communication and learning: the US higher education’s response to a global pandemic

Khairul Islam, America L. Edwards, Duli Shi, JungKyu Rhys Lim, Ronisha Sheppard, Brooke Fisher Liu, Matthew W. Seeger

This study investigates the processes that the US universities and colleges used to learn during the COVID-19 pandemic and the factors that facilitated and impeded their learning…

The interim manager – a catalyst for organizational learning?

Viktoria Rubin, Jon Ohlsson

Interim managers (IMs) are consultants who take on managerial positions during limited periods to perform changes, handle crises or cover vacancies. The increasing use of these…

A moderated-mediation model of individual learning and commitment: evidence from healthcare industry in India (part II)

Karthikeyan Somaskandan, Savarimuthu Arulandu, Satyanarayana Parayitam

This study aims to empirically examine the relationship between individual learning, organizational learning and employee commitment in the context of health-care industry.

What are organisations even there for? A call for deeper double-loop learning

Dane Lukic

Connecting Adult Learning and Knowledge Management (Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning, 8)

Ralph T. Soule