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    The Oxford Handbook of the Learning Organization by Örtenblad, Anders;

    Series: Oxford Handbooks;

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 17 December 2019

    • ISBN 9780198832355
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages540 pages
    • Size 252x177x36 mm
    • Weight 1116 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    The idea, or rather ideas, of the learning organization have for several decades been considered as an ideal. This Handbook aims to provide an overview of what the learning organization is (and is not), how it may be utilized and studied, its strengths and weaknesses, and the universality and future of the idea.

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    Long description:

    The concept of the 'learning organization' is one of the most popular management ideas of the last few decades. Since it was conceived as an idea in its own right, it has been given various definitions and meanings, such that we are still faced with the question as to whether any unified understanding of what the learning organization really is can be established. This Handbook offers extensive reviews of both new and traditional perspectives on the concept and provides suggestions for how the learning organization can best be defined, practiced, studied, and developed in future research. With contributions from long-standing scholars in the field as well as those new to the area, this book aims to bridge the gap between traditional and more critical perspectives, and in doing so find alternative features and angles to take the idea forward.

    In addition to elaborating on and developing older definitions of the learning organization and suggesting updated and even new definitions, the chapters also provide focused explorations on pertinent aspects of the learning organization such as ambidexterity, gender inclusivity, and systems thinking. They also survey organizations that have made efforts towards becoming learning organizations, how the learning organization can best be measured and studied, and the universality of the idea itself.

    Some of the questions raised in this book are answered, or at least given tentative answers, while other questions are left open. In this way, the book has the ambition to take the learning organization an important step further, whilst having no intentions to take any final step; instead, the intention is that others will endeavour to continue where this book stops.

    This is a big book full of original writing on a range of ideas, old and new, and it will be a valuable addition to the library of any university where the workings of organizations are researched and taught.

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    Table of Contents:

    Part I: Introduction
    Background and Introduction to the Learning Organization
    The Topicality of the Learning Organization: Is the Concept Still Relevant Today?
    Part II: Definitions and Meanings of the 'Learning Organization'
    Senge's Learning Organization: Development of the Learning Organization Model
    Conceptualizing an Organization That Learns
    Garvin's Learning Organization: A Process Perspective on Learning for Implementation, Improvement, and Innovation
    Learning Company: The Learning Organization According to Pedler, Burgoyne, and Boydell
    Building Learning Organizations with Action Learning
    Personal Paradoxes in Learning to Design 'The Learning Organization'
    On Definitions of the Learning Organization: Toward a New Definition of Learning Organization
    Part III: Aspects of the Learning Organization
    Learning in the Learning Organization: Concepts and Antecedents
    Ambidextrous Learning Organizations
    How the Learning Organization Learns and its Culture Coevolves
    A Mighty Step: Critical Systemic Interpretation of the Learning Organization
    From Learning Organizations to Learning Cultures and More: Evolutions in Theory, Changes in Practice, Continuity of Purpose
    Stakeholders and the Learning Organization
    What is Needed to Create Gender Inclusive Learning Organizations
    Part IV: Practicing the Learning Organization
    Interventions to Create a Learning Organization
    Glimpses of Organizations in the Act of Learning
    Pegasus or Clever White Horse? In Pursuit of Real Learning Organizations
    Part V: Studying the Learning Organization
    The Learning Organization Survey: Validation of an Instrument to Augment Research on Organizational Learning
    Measurement of the Learning Organization Construct: A Critical Perspective and Future Directions for Research
    Learning Organization and Organizational Performance
    How Best to Study the Learning Organization
    Part VI: The Universality of the Learning Organization
    The Potential To Nurture Small Businesses To Learning Organization Form
    Contextualizing The Learning Organization: Towards Differentiated Standards
    Part VII: New and Alternative Perspectives on The Learning Organization
    Becoming a Learning Organization: A Process-Philosophical Perspective
    The Learning Organization as a Practice of Becoming Human
    The Empire Strikes Back: How Learning Organization Scholars can Learn from the Critiques
    An Antenarrative Amendment to Learning Organization: Theories to Avert Sixth Extinction
    The Learning Organization: A Critical Analysis and Future Directions
    Part VIII: The Learning Organization in the Future
    The Future of the Learning Organization
    Suggestions for Future Research on the Learning Organization

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