The Learning Organization Concept to Develop Organizational Learning and Change * the Learning Organization Concept to Develop Organizational Learning and Change (original) (raw)

Abstract

This critical study of a new idea for organizational learning named Learning Organization (LO) aims at contributing for the understanding of the managerial thinking, the developing of managers and researchers conscious practice and for an integrated grounded theory construction and managerial education. LO idea seems to be based upon developing an organic systems world view that doesn't prevail neither in organizational management theory nor in organizational learning research and practice -only receptive to adaptive change. If implementers and researchers don't realise that this LO idea can't be completely understood within the prevalent business and organizational theory paradigm and do not understand the required concomitant cognitive change for a learning organization to develop, this would not actually occur. This research will evaluate the transformational capacity of the LO idea comparing its ontology and epistemology with the perception of implementers so they ca...

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