This timely Handbook establishes the 'contextualization' of the learning organization idea as a research field. In contrast to much of the previous literature, which has approached the learning organization as a panacea that every organization could and should adopt, this major new Handbook puts...

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