Introduction to special issue: Learning organization/organizational learning and gender issues

Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to first introduce the four contributions to the themed issue of The Learning Organization entitled “Learning Organization/Organizational Learning and Gender Issues”. Second, the commonalities among these articles function as themes that can generate further research and engaged or problem-driven scholarship and practice.

Design/methodology/approach

Feminist critique.

Findings

These articles challenge commonsense, blur boundaries between reality and imagined visions and form a multilevel matrix for understanding and change regarding gendered learning organizations.

Originality/value

As an introduction to a special issue, this essay summarizes and extends on the four contributions and then extends the insights to encourage discovery, learning and engagement.

Citation

Buzzanell, P.M. (2018), "Introduction to special issue: Learning organization/organizational learning and gender issues", The Learning Organization, Vol. 25 No. 1, pp. 2-9. https://doi.org/10.1108/TLO-11-2017-0107