Examines the theoretical and practical development of the concept of the learning organisation (LO). Some theorists have used the term LO interchangeably with organisational learning, while others have drawn distinctions between the two. Provides a brief review of the current LO literature in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to make the case, firstly, that democratic leadership, referred to as “leaderful practice,” should be the fundamental form of leadership that characterizes participatory organizational change. The parties affected by change are those engaged who seek...

Purpose – This paper aims to present an interactions and networks approach (INA) to the issue of change for sustainability, which can bring business out of the firm‐centric impasse and lead to collaborative action and transformation. Design/methodology/approach – This paper builds upon the...

Purpose – The purpose is to understand the manner in which companies use management accounting and control systems (MACS) for dialogical communication in assisting collaboration and the coordination of actions. The task of the research is to answer the following questions: why is it important...

Zusammenfassung Arbeit und Führung befinden sich in einem weltweiten Wandlungsprozess, der Menschen ebenso wie maschinelle Systeme betrifft. Lernprozesse und Lernverantwortung werden zunehmend integrale Bestandteile von Arbeits- und Führungsanforderungen. Dabei erfolgt Lernen in autonomen...

Purpose This paper aims to explore the views of employees from a local government organization in Brazil regarding the status of “sustainability learning” in their workplace. Sustainability learning refers to knowledge produced to address environmental risks. Design/methodology/approach Case...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the potential of applying the concept of the Learning Organization to the understanding of, and potentially the assessment of, an organization's supply chain collaboration capability. Collaborative supply chain management (SCM) literature was transposed...

Purpose It has recently been suggested that the learning organisation (LO) is dead (Pedler, 2013). The authors make the case here that it is still alive. This paper provides a brief history of LO and organisational learning, follows this with some survey findings, a discussion and an exploration...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of the processes of orientation and empowerment and the transfer of information in the learning culture. Design/methodology/approach The first hypothesis predicts that information mediates the relationship between orientation and...

This conceptual paper looks at and discusses differences between the concepts of organizational learning and (the) learning organization. Since there still seems to be confusion regarding the meaning of the two concepts, aims to clarify the two main existing distinctions – that organizational...