Although organizational learning plays a critical role in the internationalization of firms, researchers have largely focused on learning that occurs after a firm’s international entry (“learning by doing”). Few studies have discussed how a firm’s experiences prior to international entry...

The existence of positive literature on organizational learning has been remarkable since 1970s’. The literature has frequently put emphasis on the positive impacts of organizational learning such as creating knowledge, increasing capacity, improving performance, developing talent and...

Learning, an important element in terms of affecting the change of individual, organizational and social structures, will occur more effectively when the institutions in social structure turn into learning organizations. Senge (1993) concept of learning organization, constantly changing,...

This article presents the idea of “symbiotic learning systems” as a possible strategy for dealing with institutional knowledge and learning challenges posed by an emerging transition from “socially monopolized” to “socially distributed” knowledge generation and distribution. As...

This paper addresses the problem of inter-organizational coordination in response to extreme events. Extreme events require coordinated action among multiple actors across many jurisdictions under conditions of urgent stress, heavy demand and tight time constraints. The problem is...

Organizational Learning (OL) is a scientific field characterized by a long history and growing interest, so to be considered a core and promising concept in theory and practice related to the management and the organization of work. This paper addresses the two main issues that have been...

This paper looks at the special characteristics of radical inventions. It tries to identify those variables that differentiate radical inventions from non-radical inventions. Since radical inventions are very important for the economy as a whole and for the individual firm performances,...

Organizations learn from experience, knowledge sharing and organizational change. Knowledge sharing and organizational change have great impact on organizational learning. Knowledge sharing brings learning at individual level. At global level it is observed that change occur rapidly and...

According to the organizational learning literature, the greatest competitive advantage a firm has is its ability to learn. In this paper, a framework for modeling learning competence in firms is presented to improve the understanding of managing innovation. Firms with different knowledge stocks...

From a practical perspective speed of integration is recognized as an important success factor for the M&A integration outcome. Despite this fact the research area is largely neglected in the academic literature. The results of quantitative research on speed of integration provide us with...