146 words) As organizations seek to maintain their competitive superiority, organizational learning has emerged as a central issue. Researchers have suggested that organizations need to focus on managing knowledge and promote learning, rather than managing individuals (Drucker, 1993; Weick, 1998). Some organizations have adopted these ideas, creating positions such as Chief Learning Officer, an...

“Learning organization” is one of the famous organizational theories and approaches to organizational development and empirical researches have been done on its implementation and application in various sectors and cultural settings. This paper explores the concept of learning organization from an Islamic perspective following an interest in applying the concept in all types of organization. A ...

Participatory research (PR) has been analyzed and documented from different points of view, with emphasis on the benefits generated for farmers. The effect of PR on organizational learning has, however, received little attention. This paper analyzes the interaction between a research and a development institution, the International Potato Center (CIP) and CARE in Peru, respectively, and makes t...

The quest to stay competitive in the global and dynamic economy is increasingly turning organizations towards learning capacity as the main source of competitive advantage. This is due to the widespread recognition of knowledge as the major factor that will determine future success of organizations. Accordingly, knowledge management has become a central topic for academics and practitioners as ...

Organizations routinely process information, make decisions, and implement them. Recent advances in computer and communications technologies have changed the way in which organizations perform these functions. Decision support systems (DSSs) are a major category of tools that an organization utilizes to support and enhance its decision-making activities. Traditionally, organizations are conside...

In order to keep up with the continuously increasing competition and to obtain competitive advantage, software developer organizations (SDO) need to possess the characteristics of Learning Software Organizations (LSO). Maturity is directly related to both learning and knowledge management (KM). However, the major software process improvement (SPI) approaches do not explicitly address how learni...