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Co‐creating learning: insights from complexity theory

Desai, Darshan A. - In: The Learning Organization 17 (2010) 5, pp. 388-403

Purpose – Recent advances in the interactive technologies have transformed the way today's organizations and their different stakeholders learn. Now, because of the increasing learning requirements, neither these organizations nor their stakeholders can afford to be too self‐focused while...

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Creating a learning organization in law enforcement : Maturity levels for police oversight agencies

Filstad, Cathrine; Gottschalk, Petter - In: The Learning Organization 17 (2010) 5, pp. 404-418

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize a stage model for maturity levels for police oversight agencies. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a literature review covering police oversight organizations and stages of growth models. Findings – As a conceptual...

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The role of teams, culture, and capacity in the transfer of organizational practices

Lucas, Leyland M. - In: The Learning Organization 17 (2010) 5, pp. 419-436

Purpose – Transferring organizational practices requires an understanding not only of what is being transferred but also of what is needed to ensure that the transfer is successful. In line with this thinking, the purpose of this study is to examine three factors that are crucial parts of this...

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Disciplining professional vision in architectural work : Practices of seeing and seeing beyond the visual

Styhre, Alexander - In: The Learning Organization 17 (2010) 5, pp. 437-454

Purpose – Professional communities are capable of maintaining their social status and role in society on the basis of a blend of technical and formal expertise, know‐how, and an understanding of the non‐professional's demands and expectations. In architectural work, professional expertise...

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The learning organization: variations at different organizational levels

Weldy, Teresa G.; Gillis, William E. - In: The Learning Organization 17 (2010) 5, pp. 455-470

different organizations relevant to the seven dimensions of a learning organization (LO), and the two dimensions of knowledge … levels of four organizations were measured and compared using the Dimensions of a Learning Organization Questionnaire (DLOQ … organizations that may hinder progress toward a learning organization and performance improvements. Practical implications include …

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Information exchange and information disclosure in social networking web sites : Mediating role of trust

Mital, Monika; Israel, D.; Agarwal, Shailja - In: The Learning Organization 17 (2010) 6, pp. 479-490

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the mediating effect of trust on the relationship between the type of information exchange (IE) and information disclosure (ID) on social networking web sites (SNWs). Design/methodology/approach – Constructs were developed for type of IE and...

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Redundancy and novelty mining in the business blogosphere

Tsai, Flora S.; Luk Chan, Kap - In: The Learning Organization 17 (2010) 6, pp. 490-499

Purpose – The paper aims to explore the performance of redundancy and novelty mining in the business blogosphere, which has not been studied before. Design/methodology/approach – Novelty mining techniques are implemented to single out novel information out of a massive set of text documents....

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Community creation by means of a social media paradigm

Fernando, Isuru - In: The Learning Organization 17 (2010) 6, pp. 500-514

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a case study from which a framework for the purposeful building of knowledge communities by means of social media is formulated. Design/methodology/approach – The approach first takes the form of a literature review. Based on a review of...

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Organisational blogs: benefits and challenges of implementation

Baxter, Gavin J.; Connolly, Thomas M.; Stansfield, Mark H. - In: The Learning Organization 17 (2010) 6, pp. 515-528

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the theoretical link between blogs and organisational learning. It aims to provide a set of practical guidelines on how to overcome the challenges of implementing an organisational blog. Design/methodology/approach – A literature review will...

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Quality assessment in the blog space

Schaal, Markus; Fidan, Guven; Müller, Roland M.; … - In: The Learning Organization 17 (2010) 6, pp. 529-536

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is the presentation of a new method for blog quality assessment. The method uses the temporal sequence of link creation events between blogs as an implicit source for the collective tacit knowledge of blog authors about blog quality....

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