The Learning Organization: Volume 25 Issue 3

What does “learning organization” mean?

Anders Örtenblad

The paper aims to offer an overview of the definition of the concept of learning organization to be used, related to and taken as a starting point for further conceptual…

Crossing power and knowledge boundaries in learning and knowledge sharing: The role of ESM

Cathrine Filstad, Boyka Simeonova, Max Visser

The purpose of this study is to investigate the crossing of knowledge and power boundaries within a bureaucratic organization by using enterprise social media (ESM). (Carlile’s…

Managers and organizational forgetting: a synthesis

Stefania Mariano, Andrea Casey, Fernando Olivera

This paper aims to evaluate how managers influence accidental and intentional organizational forgetting, i.e. knowledge depreciation, knowledge loss and unlearning.

Organizational unlearning: time to expand our horizons?

Karen Becker

Interest in the topic of unlearning has grown in recent years, fueled by rapid changes in the business environment and resultant organizational change. This change challenges…

Responding to business model innovation: organizational unlearning and firm failure

Yuliya Snihur

This paper aims to examine Borders response to business model innovation (BMI) by Amazon in the bookselling industry. The case illuminates potential causes for protracted periods…

A journey of collaborative learning organization research: Interview with Victoria Marsick and Karen Watkins

Yusuf Sidani, Simon Reese

This paper aims to provide an overview of the development of learning organization concepts from the perspectives of Dr Victoria Marsick and Dr Karen Watkins and presents an…

Unlearning and the learning organization: revisited and expanded

Simon Reese

From Knowledge Management to Learning Organisation to Innovation by Fawzy Soliman (Ed.)

Anne Tjønndal