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The Effect of Organizational Learning on Business Sustainability -- The Role of Distributed Leadership
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Anna Helena Zgrzywa-Ziemak; Katarzyna Anna Walecka-Jankowska; Joanna Zimmer – Learning Organization, 2025
Purpose: The paper aims to investigate the importance of leadership -- distributed leadership (DL) -- for the relationship between organizational learning (OL) and business sustainability (BS). Design/methodology/approach: Extensive literature research was carried out to investigate the relationship among leadership, OL and BS. Two theoretical…
Descriptors: Organizational Learning, Power Structure, Participative Decision Making, Sustainability
Towards a Taxonomy of Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer Practices: Insights from an International Comparison (Germany-Quebec)
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Kuyken, Kerstin; Ebrahimi, Mehran; Saives, Anne-Laure – Learning Organization, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to develop a better understanding of intergenerational knowledge transfer (IKT) practices by adopting a context-related and comparative perspective. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative case study design involving 83 interviews and non-participative observation in German and Quebec organizations has been chosen.…
Descriptors: Taxonomy, Cross Cultural Studies, Case Studies, Interviews
Team Psychological Safety and Team Learning: A Cultural Perspective
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Cauwelier, Peter; Ribière, Vincent M.; Bennet, Alex – Learning Organization, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to evaluate if the concept of team psychological safety, a key driver of team learning and originally studied in the West, can be applied in teams from different national cultures. The model originally validated for teams in the West is applied to teams in Thailand to evaluate its validity, and the views team…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teamwork, Cooperative Learning, Mixed Methods Research
A Comparative Perspective of Knowledge Management via Social Media: India and China
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Liu, Michelle; Rao, Pramila – Learning Organization, 2015
Purpose: This research paper aims to showcase current knowledge management (KM) practices via social media that is being adopted by organizations in India and China. India and China are considered leading economies in today's global market. Any understanding of management practices in these countries will help practitioners in doing businesses in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Knowledge Management, Social Networks, Internet
The "Learning Organisation" and Singapore Culture
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Retna, Kala S.; Jones, Deborah – Learning Organization, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore practitioner and post-colonial perspectives on the implementation of learning organisation theory and practice in a non-Western setting. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative interpretive study, using in-depth interviews and participant observation, was conducted in two public organisations in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizational Learning, Cultural Context, Non Western Civilization
The Impact of the Learning Organization Environment on the Organizational Learning Process in the Korean Business Context
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Song, Ji Hoon; Jeung, Chang-Wook; Cho, Sei Hyoung – Learning Organization, 2011
Purpose: The primary purposes of the current paper are to: provide theoretically clear concepts of the learning organization (LO) and organizational learning (OL) process; and empirically test the relationships among research constructs--environmental aspects of the LO and three types of OL processes at the levels of individual, group/team, and…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Structural Equation Models, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries