The challenge to research management is threefold: first, to define the vision of a research institution, to determine the nature of its potential innovative contributions. Second, to develop the organizational prerequisites for meeting these goals, ensuring that the structures of the...

How does a major international company learn? In particular, how does a successful international company even discover that it needs to learn to do things differently, and to do different things, rather than relying on its past recipes for success? According to the literature, success tends to...

The intensity and scope of attention to the (negative) impacts of business activities on the social and natural environment have waxed and waned over the past forty years. A revival of interest on a wide scale is visible and audible again today. Numerous organizations, including the United...

Die Gesellschaften der Moderne befinden sich in einem tiefgreifenden Wandlungsprozeß, in dem sich die gewohnten Kontexte des Organisationslernens grundlegend und nachhaltig verändern. Durch diesen Kontextwandel werden zunehmend nicht nur scheinbar gesicherte Resultate, sondern vor allem auch...

A firm's ability to shape its policies to meet societal demands depends on how it perceives the opportunities and risks in its environment. We hypothesized that corporate culture plays a significant role in shaping organizational perceptions. This paper summarizes the findings of a study on how...

Unfortunately, most students leave the university with little knowledge about decision-making in the public sector. Unless they study towards a management degree, most students experience little to no business education in their curricula. As a consequence, student perceptions of the business...

The field of organizational learning has developed dynamically but is not ready for closure. This article reviews the cultural contexts in which research on organizational learning has been conducted since the 1960s, and the intellectual traditions that underpin the field. It traces changes in...

Vieles deutet darauf hin, daß sich die Gesellschaften der Moderne in einer umfassenden und tiefgreifenden Krise befinden, und zwar einer Krise, von der nicht mehr nur einzelne, sondern zunehmend alle Organisationen der Gesellschaft betroffen sind, und in der deren Existenzberechtigung...

Organisationslernen und Wissensmanagement sind in der Organisationsforschung als anerkannte Forschungsbereiche und in der Organisationspraxis zu einem festen Bestandteil von Veränderungsprozessen geworden. Der Beitrag beschreibt die Entwicklung des Feldes und hebt wesentliche Ergebnisse hervor....