The competitiveness of European companies is largely dependant on their ability to adapt to new social and technical innovations. This often involves major realignments of their business ideas, work organisation and technology, and also requires the development of new competencies on the part of...

Competence development is seen as one of the critical strategic factors ensuring companies’ competitiveness. This has given rise to much discussion on how to create organisational and learning environments, such as learning organisations, which foster employees’ skills and sense of...