The extensive literature on the Learning Organisation proposes that a competitive advantage can be achieved through the systematised generation and application of knowledge. Consequently, much of the debate concerns the processes, routines and organizational features that a firm should adopt to...

The ever-decreasing time between the doubling of knowledge creates a problem for education concerning how to handle information overload. To address this issue, educators must learn to make learning more effective and more efficient. Currently, there is more to learn and less time in which to...

This paper addresses doubts concerning the reliability of knowledge being created by double loop learning processes. Popper's ontological worlds are used to explore the philosophical basis of the way that individual experiences are turned into organisational knowledge, and such knowledge is used...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how T.M. Knox sought to conceptualise economic activity in the context of his philosophical background and in relation to the analysis of the nature of economics offered by Lionel Robbins. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents an...

Foreword / Raymond Plant -- From citizen solidarity to self-serving inequality : social solidarity, market economy and welfare statecraft / Jack Hayward -- Public intervention : the roles of state and society -- The rationale for the retreat from the welfare state / Noel O'Sullivan -- Expanding...