The Learning Organization: Volume 24 Issue 5

The governance of organizational learning: Empirical evidence from best-practice universities in Germany

Sabine Lauer, Uwe Wilkesmann

The purpose of this paper is to link two modes of governance (transactional and transformational) to organizational learning by examining the example of academic teaching…

How does leadership development help universities become learning organisations?

Paul Gentle, Louise Clifton

The purpose of this paper is to draw on empirical data to interrogate the correlation between participation in leadership development programmes by individual leaders and the…

What it takes to be a superior college president: Transform your institution into a learning organization

Hershey Harry Friedman, Frimette Kass-Shraibman

The purpose of this study is to examine established leadership paradigms in the context of institutions of higher education. The old ways of running a college, which might have…

Leading entrepreneurial e-learning development in legal education: A longitudinal case study of “universities as learning organisations”

Chris Trevitt, Aliya Steed, Lynn Du Moulin, Tony Foley

The study aims to review the entrepreneurial and educational innovations in technology-enabled distance education in practical legal education (PLE) accomplished by a unit “on the…

The academic non-consultation phenomenon revisited: a research agenda

Nhien Nguyen, Jens Ørding Hansen

The purpose of this paper is to revive interest in the question, never definitively answered, which Stephen Watson raised in the title of his 2000 paper, “Why is it that…

Balancing countervailing processes at a Lithuanian university

Liudvika Leisyte, Mantas Vilkas, Egle Staniskiene, Daiva Zostautiene

The purpose of this paper is to understand how the countervailing processes for enhancing academic excellence based on professional norms are balanced out with the market-oriented…

Organizational learning of higher education institutions: the case of Estonia

Karen Voolaid, Üllas Ehrlich

This paper aims to measure the organizational learning in two of Estonia’s Higher Education Institutions (HEI) and identify connections between the organizational learning and…

Knowledge sharing and organizational change in higher education

Jay Dee, Liudvika Leisyte

Organizational learning in higher education institutions depends upon the ability of managers and academics to maintain a flow of knowledge across the structural boundaries of the…

Knowledge management in higher education institutions: enablers and barriers in Mauritius

Poonam Veer Ramjeawon, Jennifer Rowley

The purpose of this study is to contribute to research on knowledge management in higher education institutions (HEIs), by studying the enablers and barriers to knowledge…

Is the higher education institution a learning organization (or can it become one)?

Simon Reese

PALAR: The Action Research Model in Higher Education and Communities

Devi Akella