The Learning Organization from the Perspective of the Evolutionary Epistemology

Many authors have laid down a concept about organizational learning and the learning organization. Amongst them They contributed an explanation on how organizations learn and provided tools to transfer the theoretical concepts of organizational learning into practice. Regarding the present situation it seems, that organizational learning becomes even more important. This paper provides a complementary view on the learning organization from the perspective of the evolutionary epistemology. The evolutionary epistemology gives an answer, where the subjective structures of cognition come from and why they are similar in all human beings. Applying this evolutionary concept to organizations it could be possible to provide a deeper insight of the cognition processes of organizations and explain the principles that lay behind a learning organization. It also could give an idea, which impediments in learning, caused by natural dispositions, deduced from genetic barriers of cognition in biology are existing and managers must be aware of when trying to facilitate organizational learning within their organizations.