Purpose – Twenty years ago, Senge's, 1990 pioneering article, ”The learning organization,” published in MIT's Sloan Management Review , received center‐stage attention. The concept received much support and was followed with articles by prominent writers and educators, Margaret Wheatley...

Purpose – Firms face the challenge of developing learning capabilities that enable them to work as part of an effective business network. While an extensive literature examines learning capabilities within the firm, little attention has been given to shared learning that occurs between...

Purpose – This paper seeks to apply the dynamic capability framework to explore why store managers within the same chain of restaurants perform differently. Specifically, this paper argues that knowledge resources and learning mechanisms are critical to the development of dynamic capabilities....

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....

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to show how a model for sustainable learning has been formed in the meetings between practitioners and researchers. Design/methodology/approach – With the point of departure in an interactive research approach, the authors have worked with learning...

The paper contributes to an ongoing international discussion around how to measure innovation in developing countries and how to turn the findings into useful policy tools. It stresses the fact that innovation needs to be understood as a learning process, and concomitantly measuring innovation...

In a knowledge society and a knowledge economy organizations need to have sustainable competitive advantages against their competitors, they need to innovate and to have performance. Organizational learning is a way to achieve these features, because, through organizational learning the...

Many policy problems in the field of urban planning and traffic management are to be characterized as ?ill structured problems?, i.e. there is little consensus about ?goals and facts?. The policy making process for such problems is a learning process, a continuous search for acceptable goals and...