Organizational Learning and the Learning Organization: Developments in Theory and Practice

A valuable resource for academics and practitioners in management and corporate strategy, as well as those involved in management training and development′ - European Foundation for Management Development

 

′The editors′ overall assessment is that there has been insufficient dialogue between the two camps of action research and theorizing... As a contribution to mapping this divided house, the text is an apt illustration of these problems. The editor's overview is of interest...′ - Stephen Gibb, University of Strathclyde, MCB University Press

 

The debates surrounding concepts of organizational learning′ and the learning organization′ receive a welcome synthesis in this book. Inte

Author: Mark Easterby-Smith
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Published: 06/22/1999
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.11h x 6.12w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780761959168

About the Author
Araujo, Luis: - I am broadly interested in understanding how and why industrial firms form and develop different types of exchange relationships and engage in particular types of market practices. What follows is a description of my current interests.Easterby-Smith, Mark: - Mark Easterby-Smith passed away in 2020. He was an Emeritus Professor at the University of Lancaster. His field was organizational learning. He had a first degree in Engineering Science and a PhD in Organizational Behaviour from Durham University and was an active researcher for over 30 years with primary interests in methodology and learning processes. He carried out evaluation studies in many European companies, and led research projects on management development, organizational learning, dynamic capabilities and knowledge transfer across international organizations in the UK, India and China.

Mark published numerous academic papers and over ten books including: Auditing Management Development (Gower, 1980); The Challenge to Western Management Development (Routledge, 1989); Evaluation of Management Education, Training and Development (Gower, 1994); Organizational Learning and the Learning Organization (Sage, 1998); The Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management, 2nd edn (Wiley, 2011).At Lancaster he was, variously, Director of the School's Doctoral Programme, Director of the Graduate Management School and Head of Department. Externally he spent several years as a visiting faculty member on the International Teachers' Programme, acting as Director when it was held at the London Business School in 1984. During the early 1990s he was national co-ordinator of the Management Teaching Fellowship Scheme funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), which was responsible for training 180 new faculty members across UK management schools. He was a former member of the ESRC Post-graduate Training Board and was President of the British Academy of Management in 2006 and Dean of Fellows in 2008.Araujo, Luis: - I am broadly interested in understanding how and why industrial firms form and develop different types of exchange relationshipsa and engage in particular types of market practices. What follows is a description of my current interests.
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