Revisiting the What, How and Why of Managerial Learning:Some New Evidence

Learning theory in the context of organisations has come a long way in its efforts to encapsulate the cultural, political and social dimensions of learning (Cook & Yanow, 1993; Coopey, 1995; Easterby-Smith et al., 1999, 2000). However, learning as practiced by individuals still remains relatively little understood, despite recent contributions emphasizing the collective, relational and situated nature of learning (Gherardi, 1999; Wenger, 2000). Considering the inferences drawn on individual learning to understand organisational learning it is rather ironic that to-date we know very little about what individuals actually learn in organisations, how they learn and why they learn.....