The Learning Organization: Volume 19 Issue 4

Knowledge to manage the knowledge society

Gianfranco Minati

This article aims to outline the scope of this Special Issue and of the six papers.

Improving safety, quality and efficiency through the management of emerging processes: The TenarisDalmine experience

Patrizia Bonometti

The aim of this contribution is to describe a new complexity‐science‐based approach for improving safety, quality and efficiency and the way it was implemented by TenarisDalmine.

Designing a strategic plan through an emerging knowledge generation process: The ATM experience

Francesco Zanotti

The aim of this contribution is to describe a new methodology for designing strategic plans and how it was implemented by ATM, a public transportation agency based in Milan, Italy.

The future of management as design: a thought experiment

Véronique Bouchard, Léon del Forno

Management practices and education are presently in a stage of reappraisal and a growing number of scholars and experts are suggesting that managers should be taught and adopt the…

Organizational design drivers to enable emergent creativity in web‐based communities

Alberto F. De Toni, Gianluca Biotto, Cinzia Battistella

In the stream of works studying complexity from an organizational viewpoint, literature is focused mainly on describing new organizational forms (holonic organization, circular…

Knowledge to manage the knowledge society

Gianfranco Minati

The purpose of this research is to make evident the inadequateness of concepts and language based on industrial knowledge still used in current practices by managers to cope with…

Knowledge, management, and learning when the context of the organization is planetary

Arne Collen

The purpose of this article is to expound the view that knowledge of a special kind, which the author terms open knowledge, has a central place in the conduct of human activities…

Special Issue on Implementing Web 2.0 Tools in Organisations

In memoriam of Professor Arne Collen

Gianfranco Minati