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 – 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 – 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...

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....

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...

Forestry is an important source of income for forest owners and those employed in rural areas. In recent years, this sector has had to tackle far-reaching changes taking place in the social, economic and political system. New demands are now being addressed and policies reformulated. As a...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to assess the validity and reliability of the measurement scores related to the learning organization culture, the Dimensions of Learning Organization Questionnaire (DLOQ), in an Iranian context. This research can contribute to the growing literature...

Purpose – The present study aims to revalidate a measurement scale for organizational learning capability in the context of university faculty members. This is a particularly relevant context because it deals with knowledge-intensive services. Following Chiva et al., organizational learning...

Purpose – The learning history is designed to describe the coming about of best practices, with their reproduction in mind. This paper seeks to discuss the implications of this instrument and presents a modified version. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a so‐called discursive...