A process-philosophical understanding of organizational learning as “wayfinding”: Process, practices and sensitivity to environmental affordances
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to articulate a practice-based, non-cognitivist approach to organizational learning.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper explores the potential contribution of a process-based “practice turn” in social theory for understanding organizational learning.
Findings
In complex, turbulent environments, robust organizations recur more to cultivated sensitivities and predispositions rather than rely on elaborate plans and strategies to guide their action; they “Wayfind” their way to sustainable success.
Originality/value
This study develops the understanding of organizational learning as a process of everyday practical coping guided by internalized sensitivities and predispositions.
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Citation
Chia, R. (2017), "A process-philosophical understanding of organizational learning as “wayfinding”: Process, practices and sensitivity to environmental affordances", The Learning Organization, Vol. 24 No. 2, pp. 107-118. https://doi.org/10.1108/TLO-11-2016-0083
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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