If current experts in the field of organizationaldesign have it right (for example Senge,1990), and we believe that they do, thenorganizations must become high-alignment/high-autonomy environments if they are toremain viable (Smith and Saint-Onge, 1996;Smith and Sharma, 2002)

Organisations often collaboratively seek ways such as partnerships, alliances and joint venture (JVs), to bridge gaps in their knowledge and capacity to provide goods or services. Infrastructure projects in Hong Kong often require clusters of resources, knowledge, skills and capabilities that...

Purpose – This study aims to explore knowledge management (KM) practice in the “back office” of two English football clubs. Design/methodology/approach – The paper takes the form of a comparative case study of two medium‐sized businesses using multi‐method data including unstructured...

Purpose – Radical changes and increasing competition in the global economy and markets lead enterprises to change their business policy and activities. This process demands the creation of effective organizational learning mechanisms. This paper seeks to illustrate how three service...

Purpose – This study aims to investigate how an organic cotton production network learns to maintain its hybrid network and its sustainability in the face of internal and external pressures. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative case study was conducted in Justa Trama, a...

Purpose – Sustainability is, in itself, the idea of a harmonic answer to the dual nature of the most pressing problem for global society. Most of the problems dealing with sustainability concern its dual and contradictory nature. That paradoxical reality is in no way a unique feature of...

Purpose – While the importance of organizational learning for sustainability has been stressed by a number of authors in the literature, the practicalities of how organizational leaders might foster such learning are seldom treated. This paper seeks to demonstrate that there is much that could...

Purpose – This Special Issue is intended to heighten awareness of the importance of organizational learning in addressing the demands of organizational sustainability, and in particular triple bottom line (TBL) sustainability. A definition of TBL sustainability is provided, together with an...

Purpose – This paper addresses the importance of a more proactive role of organizational learning (OL) facilitators, learning motivation reinforcer, through a two‐part longitudinal study in a case company. The first part of this study aims to investigate and analyze some unexpected...

Purpose – This study aims to investigate creativity‐related determinants of learning in the context of business‐to‐business services and client‐agency relationships. Design/methodology/approach – The research model includes client encouragement, agency creativity, campaign...