Handbook of Research on the Learning Organization: Adaptation and Context

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Anders Örtenblad
Edward Elgar Publishing, Sep 30, 2013 - Business & Economics - 432 pages

This timely Handbook establishes the ‘contextualization’ of the learning organization idea as a research field.

 

Contents

putting the learning organization into context an emerging research field
3
2 What do we mean by learning organization?
22
contributions from previous works
35
approaches to research design
51
5 Obstacles to the learning organization
68
PART II THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION IN CONTEXT
87
Section A Culture and Religion
89
an integrative framework
91
13 Family firms as learning organizations
210
internationalization and innovation
227
Section C Mixed Contexts
245
insights from the education system in Pakistan
247
opportunities and challenges for small and mediumsized enterprises in developing countries
267
PART III REFLECTIONS ON THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION
279
a critical realist approach
281
18 Who is the learning organization for? A stakeholder contingency approach to contextualizing managerial panaceas
289

7 Developing learning organizations in China
107
an empirical study
126
9 Islamic perspective of the learning organization
145
Section B Industries and Sectors
157
the development of the Army Learning Organization Questionnaire ALOQ
159
to be or not to be a learning organization?
179
12 The learning organization in elderly care can it fit?
196
19 The learning organization drop the dead metaphor Performing organizing and learning in networks so to speak
306
20 Alternative learning organization
358
how will it help us learn in the future?
372
recommendations for further research
384
Index
397
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Edited by Anders Örtenblad, Professor of Work Life Science, University of Agder, Norway

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