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Towards a taxonomy of intergenerational knowledge transfer practices

Kuyken, Kerstin; Ebrahimi, Mehran; Saives, Anne-Laure - In: The Learning Organization 25 (2018) 2, pp. 81-91

Purpose: This paper aims to develop a better understanding of intergenerational knowledge transfer (IKT) practices by adopting a context-related and comparative perspective. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative case study design involving 83 interviews and non-participative observation in...

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Crossing power and knowledge boundaries in learning and knowledge sharing

Filstad, Cathrine; Simeonova, Boyka; Visser, Max - In: The Learning Organization 25 (2018) 3, pp. 159-168

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the crossing of knowledge and power boundaries within a bureaucratic organization by using enterprise social media (ESM). (Carlile’s 2002) boundary crossing framework is used to guide this research. Design/methodology/approach: This is a...

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What does “learning organization” mean?

Örtenblad, Anders - In: The Learning Organization 25 (2018) 3, pp. 150-158

/methodology/approach: This is a conceptual paper. To define the learning organization, a label-focused approach and a content-focused approach … others have done, and a contextual approach to demarcating the learning organization concept is suggested. …, related to and taken as a starting point for further conceptual developments by others writing about and using the learning …

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Team of Teams : New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World

Reese, Simon - In: The Learning Organization 25 (2018) 4, pp. 288-291

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Diverging assessments of learning organizations during reform implementation

Borge, Baard H.; Filstad, Cathrine; Olsen, Trude Høgvold; … - In: The Learning Organization 25 (2018) 6, pp. 399-409

Purpose: This study aims to explore whether hierarchical position and organizational size affect perceptions of a learning organization (LO) during reform implementation. Design/methodology/approach: An electronic survey was distributed in four Norwegian police districts at an early stage of...

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The dimensions of the learning organization questionnaire (DLOQ)

Chai, Dae Seok; Dirani, Khalil - In: The Learning Organization 25 (2018) 5, pp. 320-330

the learning organization questionnaire (DLOQ) to provide evidence on the learning organization (LO) concept in Lebanon …

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CoPs facing rationalization : the politics of community reproduction

Kilskar, Stine Skaufel; Ingvaldsen, Jonas A.; Valle, Nina - In: The Learning Organization 25 (2018) 2, pp. 123-134

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the relationship between the contemporary forms of manufacturing rationalization and the reproduction of communities of practice (CoPs) centred on tasks and craft. Building on critical literature highlighting the tensions between CoPs and rationalization,...

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Responding to business model innovation : organizational unlearning and firm failure

Snihur, Yuliya - In: The Learning Organization 25 (2018) 3, pp. 190-198

Purpose: This paper aims to examine Borders response to business model innovation (BMI) by Amazon in the bookselling industry. The case illuminates potential causes for protracted periods of organizational unlearning, explaining why organizational unlearning, although beneficial in many...

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Challenges to the learning organization in the context of generational diversity and social networks

Kaminska, Renata; Borzillo, Stefano - In: The Learning Organization 25 (2018) 2, pp. 92-101

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to gain a better understanding of the challenges to the emergence of a learning organization (LO) posed by a context of generational diversity and an enterprise social networking system (ESNS). Design/methodology/approach: This study uses a qualitative...

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Challenges of the levels of learning

Rupčić, Nataša - In: The Learning Organization 25 (2018) 4, pp. 281-287

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to highlight challenges and opportunities that surround the process of learning with an emphasis on higher-order learning and learning as behavior. Higher-order learning has been conceptualized as learning behavior that can be learned....

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