The Learning Organization: Volume 9 Issue 1

A critical appraisal of the performance of Royal Dutch Shell as a learning organisation in the 1990s

Emily Boyle

Since the late 1980s, learning organisations have been deemed to have a number of advantages over non‐learning ones. One organisation that has been identified as “a premiere…

A firm’s assets as a foundation for strategy. Learning and the grounds to success

Mariano Nieto, Waldo Pérez

Firm assets are the most important element in strategy formulation and implementation. A company’s grounds to success can be found here. However, not all are equally important…

The role of climate and socialization in developing interfunctional coordination

Barbara Ross Wooldridge, Barbara D. Minsky

Interfunctional coordination may be of primary importance to a firm developing a sustainable competitive advantage. This paper suggests that climate and socialization processes…

Creating an organizational space for learning

Charles S. Englehardt, Peter R. Simmons

Individual and group development is an essential element of achieving competitive advantage through people. The building and transfer of knowledge is widely discussed in the…