Few studies attempt to measure organisational learning. Measurement is critical to evaluate relationships between initiatives to support learning and organisational performance. This paper proposes a theory-based tool kit for measurement of organisational learning. By tool kit we mean a collection of methods that each captures elements of the phenomenon ‘organisational learning’. The paper clar...

The growth in importance of communities within organisational settings is a sign of a change in paradigm. When management and organisational theory introduce the critical notion of communities , in parallel to the concepts of collaborative work and of knowledge sharing, there is an internal revolution going on. Brown & Duguid, 1991) has a critical role to play in today's development of manageme...

The present paper presents a road map of different theoretical perspectives which disclose a breakthrough approach to organisational innovation and development. It starts from an overview of key questions related to the concept of double-loop learning, then it relates innovation to the concepts of entrepreneurship and leadership, it highlights the key role of the fields of Organisational Learni...

Knowledge development in an enterprise is about approaches, methods, techniques and tools, which will support the advancement of individual and organisational knowledge for the purpose of an improvement of businesses. As a basis, conceptions of knowledge and of knowledge conversions are needed. Here knowledge dynamics is understood to cover all of acquisition, conversion, transfer and usage of ...

Introduction Intensive care units are complex working environments, which are constantly assessed and reviewed against national standards. Hence it is more important to constantly self-evaluate and improve quality of care and clinical outcomes. The concept of organisational learning is adopted by the health care industry [1] from the commercial industry, which has benefitted from increased prod...

As organisational learning in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) has been attracted by the academics in recent years, the relevant topics of organisational learning in SMEs are becoming an important issue both in the research of organisational learning and the investigation of SMEs. According to the previous literatures, the quantitative research showed that there are different characters betw...

Organisational learning has been widely acknowledged as holding the key for companies to survive and prosper and has, in recent years, gained currency in construction management research. Much research centred upon the study of organisational learning as a process, as well as the view and understanding of companies as learning organisations. However, non-construction management researchers have...

Organisational learning has been widely acknowledged as holding the key for companies to survive and prosper and has, in recent years, gained currency in construction management research. Much research centred upon the study of organisational learning as a process, as well as the view and understanding of companies as learning organisations. However, non-construction management researchers have...

The fusion of organisational learning and knowledge management theory in recent years has prompted some important insights into learning and knowledge in organisations which are yet to be reflected in integrated practice. The meeting of the traditional perspectives in each of the fields has triggered sophisticated discussion about the the unit of analysis for learning (Stacey 2003a; Field 2004)...

In order for organisations to keep up with the onslaught of challenges inherent in the knowledge era, they must continuously learn. From a normative perspective, groupware technologies facilitate organisational learning by providing a means of disseminating and codifying organisational knowledge. However, in practice, the potential learning benefits of groupware are rarely achieved. This paper ...