For this three-volume set the editors have selected many of the most influential articles published since 1984 on the topics of knowledge management and the improvement of organizational learning, developmental learning by individual organizations and the development of populations of...

This chapter focuses on institutionalized processes for creating knowledge, especially methods that academics and professionals espouse publicly when they create objective knowledge. Knowledge creation also blocks discovery, because when people decide that an explanation or observation is true,...

This chapter uses the story of Peter Senge's The Learning Organization (TLO) and talks about "learning organizations" to illustrate how management fads and fashions affect the spread of knowledge. Some commentators labeled Senge's successful TLO work a "fad." Implicit in such labeling is...