The Learning Organization: Volume 15 Issue 5

From learning organization to practically wise organization

Jennifer Rowley, Paul Gibbs

Although the notion of wisdom confronts the economic rationale of business organizations, this paper aims to argue that organizations are coming under increasing pressure not only…

Rational choice or leap of faith? The creation and defence of a management orthodoxy

Nick Oliver

In the 1980s and 1990s enthusiasm for Japanese or “lean” manufacturing methods swept through Western industry. At the time, commentators argued that these methods represented a…

Embodied “inter‐learning” – an integral phenomenology of learning in and by organizations

Wendelin Kupers

Based on showing the significance of embodied and relational learning, this paper aims for contributing to a more comprehensive and integral approach to learning in and of…

Knowledge management formal and informal mentoring: An empirical investigation in Lebanese banks

Silva Karkoulian, Leila A. Halawi, Richard V. McCarthy

As businesses continue to forge ahead in the twenty‐first century, knowledge management (KM) has materialized as a significant differentiator. The process of creating new…

Family SMEs in Ireland as learning organizations

Naomi Birdthistle

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether small and medium‐sized family businesses in Ireland have the potential to be classified as learning organizations.