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Fostering organizational sustainability through dialogic interaction

Wals, Arjen E.J.; Schwarzin, Lisa - In: The Learning Organization 19 (2012) 1, pp. 11-27

Purpose – This paper aims to introduce and investigate dialogic interaction as a key element of achieving a transition towards sustainability in people, organizations and society as a whole. Furthermore “sustainability competence” as a potential outcome of such interaction is to be...

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Exploring our ecological selves within learning organizations

Rogers, Katrina S. - In: The Learning Organization 19 (2012) 1, pp. 28-37

Purpose – The paper's aim is to explore the connection between individual worldviews, called ecological selves, and organizational change, which allows people to create the conditions to confront the global environmental challenges they face as a species. Design/methodology/approach – The...

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Internal and external pressures : How does an organic cotton production network learn to keep its hybrid nature?

Turcato, Carolina; Barin‐Cruz, Luciano; Avila … - In: The Learning Organization 19 (2012) 1, pp. 38-57

Purpose – This study aims to investigate how an organic cotton production network learns to maintain its hybrid network and its sustainability in the face of internal and external pressures. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative case study was conducted in Justa Trama, a...

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Sustainable development: paradoxes, misunderstandings and learning organizations

Ramirez, Gabriel A. - In: The Learning Organization 19 (2012) 1, pp. 58-76

Purpose – Sustainability is, in itself, the idea of a harmonic answer to the dual nature of the most pressing problem for global society. Most of the problems dealing with sustainability concern its dual and contradictory nature. That paradoxical reality is in no way a unique feature of...

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Sustainability, organizational learning, and lessons learned from aviation

Pourdehnad, John; Smith, Peter A.C. - In: The Learning Organization 19 (2012) 1, pp. 77-86

Purpose – While the importance of organizational learning for sustainability has been stressed by a number of authors in the literature, the practicalities of how organizational leaders might foster such learning are seldom treated. This paper seeks to demonstrate that there is much that could...

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The importance of organizational learning for organizational sustainability

Smith, Peter A.C. - In: The Learning Organization 19 (2012) 1, pp. 4-10

Purpose – This Special Issue is intended to heighten awareness of the importance of organizational learning in addressing the demands of organizational sustainability, and in particular triple bottom line (TBL) sustainability. A definition of TBL sustainability is provided, together with an...

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The relationship between learning capability and organizational performance : A meta‐analytic examination

Goh, Swee C.; Elliott, Catherine; Quon, Tony K. - In: The Learning Organization 19 (2012) 2, pp. 92-108

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a meta‐analysis of a subset of published empirical research papers that measure learning capability and link it to organizational performance. It also seeks to examine both financial and non‐financial performance....

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I learned more than I taught: the hidden dimension of learning in intercultural knowledge transfer

Chen, Fang; Bapuji, Hari; Dyck, Bruno; Wang, Xiaoyun - In: The Learning Organization 19 (2012) 2, pp. 109-120

Purpose – Although knowledge transfer is generally conceived as a two‐way process in which knowledge is transferred to and from the knowledge source, research has tended to focus on the first part of the process and neglect the second part. This study aims to examine the feedback loop and...

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The “organization” as an interdisciplinary learning zone : Using a strategic game to integrate learning about supply chain management and advertising

Saxena Arora, Anshu - In: The Learning Organization 19 (2012) 2, pp. 121-133

Purpose – The research study seeks to explore the relationship among strategic gaming, the learning organization model … “learning organization” as an interdisciplinary learning zone and investigates the key issues in cross‐sectoral business … advantage. The research is of great value to industry professionals as it motivates critical thinking through the use of the …

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Using cognitive conflict to promote the use of dialectical learning for strategic decision‐makers

Woods, Jeffrey G. - In: The Learning Organization 19 (2012) 2, pp. 134-147

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual model that uses dialectical inquiry (DI) to create cognitive conflict in strategic decision‐makers for the purpose of improving strategic decisions. Activation of the dialectical learning process using DI requires strategic...

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