Purpose – This paper aims to explore Hong Kong firms' training needs in the Pearl River Delta, a booming region in the fast growing People Republic of China economy, by resorting to a human capital approach. Also, to identify the training policies selected by those firms in order to cater for...

Organizational learning has long been studied. There are numerous approaches. One could believe that there are as many definitions as authors. Such a situation tends to create confusion around this concept and makes operationalization difficult. A few authors, giving themselves a definition of...

The system theory, as explained by various authors, aims at being a general science whose underpinning would be valid for all disciplines. The approach of this article, i.e. studying the field of learning with a systemic approach, exemplifies itself the rationale of the theory. The interest of...

Corporate Governance and IT Governance do not explicitly mention Intellectual Capital as a resource to be considered in the enterprise strategies. Nevertheless, as highest international institutions sponsor Corporate Governance, we are encouraged to think that the knowledge economy will oblige...

Beyond enthusiasm towards Japanese management practices, can we consider that it exists something we can call "Asian management"? Or shall we consider that we face a constellation of diverse management practices? In any case, the central question is "can we learn "? This paper develops the...

In the context of Markstrat simulation game, a group learning scale has been developed based on Churchill’s work (1979). Our methodology reveals that it is possible to measure group learning by developing a specific scale. This scale appears as reliable and valid. The scale falls into two...

The organizational learning, studied in resource-based view, is a strategic resource (Wernerfelt 1984, Prahalad et Hamel 1990, Doz 1990, Teece 1998, Weartherly 2003). Thus, “learning to learn” (Argyris et Schön, 1978), being a learning organization (Senge 1990, Edmondson et Moingeon 1998,...

The aim of this study is to contribute to the analysis of technology transfer for the french case. This was done by studying technology transfer offices created to manage and develop technology transfer and start-up having links with research. Regarding technology transfer offices, we studied...