The Learning Organization: Volume 19 Issue 1

The importance of organizational learning for organizational sustainability

Peter A.C. Smith

This Special Issue is intended to heighten awareness of the importance of organizational learning in addressing the demands of organizational sustainability, and in particular…

Fostering organizational sustainability through dialogic interaction

Arjen E.J. Wals, Lisa Schwarzin

This paper aims to introduce and investigate dialogic interaction as a key element of achieving a transition towards sustainability in people, organizations and society as a…

Exploring our ecological selves within learning organizations

Katrina S. Rogers

The paper's aim is to explore the connection between individual worldviews, called ecological selves, and organizational change, which allows people to create the conditions to…

Internal and external pressures: How does an organic cotton production network learn to keep its hybrid nature?

Carolina Turcato, Luciano Barin‐Cruz, Eugenio Avila Pedrozo

This study aims to investigate how an organic cotton production network learns to maintain its hybrid network and its sustainability in the face of internal and external pressures.

Sustainable development: paradoxes, misunderstandings and learning organizations

Gabriel A. Ramirez

Sustainability is, in itself, the idea of a harmonic answer to the dual nature of the most pressing problem for global society. Most of the problems dealing with sustainability…

Sustainability, organizational learning, and lessons learned from aviation

John Pourdehnad, Peter A.C. Smith

While the importance of organizational learning for sustainability has been stressed by a number of authors in the literature, the practicalities of how organizational leaders…