Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 9 Issue 1

Historical foundations of organization learning

Philip H. Mirvis

Presents a broad review of theory and research about organizations as social, information processing, interpretive, and inquiring systems which locates the origins of key concepts…

Resolving the spirit and substance of organizational learning

Mark Addleson

Argues that there are two strands in the organizational learning (OL) literature marked by incompatible world views. The dominant substance is modernist while the spirit is…

Conviction and doubt in organizational learning

Param Srikantia, William Pasmore

Examines the roles of conviction and doubt in organizational learning processes and focuses on the challenge of transforming individual learning into organizational learning…

The role of creative action in organizational learning and change

Cameron M. Ford, dt ogilvie

Organizational learning is depicted most frequently as an intra‐organizational information processing activity, but the role that experience plays in the development of…

Organizational knowledge, learning and memory: three concepts in search of a theory

J.‐C. Spender

There is much interest in organizational knowledge following the recognition of its strategic place in inter‐firm competition, but there is no adequate theory of such knowledge…

Exploring knowledge diversity in knowledge intensive firms: a new role for information systems

Ramkrishnan V. Tenkasi, Richard J. Boland

The emerging global economy is characterized increasingly by knowledge intensive firms which require that diverse, specialized knowledge workers develop unique knowledge…

From theory to practice: research territory, processes and structure at an organizational learning centre

George L. Roth, Peter M. Senge

By definition, all organizations that survive as their environment evolves are learning, at least to some degree, but proposes that the learning capabilities of most organizations…

Organizational learning research profile

Mary Crossan, Tracy Guatto

Presents the results of a keyword search of the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), ABI Inform and PyschLit databases using the terms “organizational learning” and “learning…