This paper describes how Avoidant Organization Disorder, a common form of narcissism, thwarts organizational health and performance. Avoidant Organization Disorder is juxtaposed with interruptions in organizational learning. A model illustrating the possible relationship between the two and how...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the concept of communities of practice from a psychoanalytically informed perspective. Design/methodology/approach – The concept of communities of practice is defined, their working described, and negative attributes delineated. Findings –...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a psychoanalytical approach to dealing with organizational inertia. Design/methodology/approach – The concept of organizational inertia is defined and factors contributing to insight inertia and action inertia are delineated. Findings – It...

Purpose – This article aims to present an alternative approach to diagnosing behavioral barriers to organizational learning. Design/methodology/approach – The paper juxtaposes interruptions in organizational learning with characteristics of narcissism and arrogant organization disorder....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe how interruptions in organizational learning effect institutional absorptive capacity and contribute to organizational inertia. Design/methodology/approach – An exploratory model is presented as a heuristic to describe how interruptions in...

Health care policy and practice are frequently driven by government mandate. What role does organizational learning have in government‐directed organizational change and what kind of organizational learning might we expect from legislated procedure? In 1983, a task force on indigent health...

Japanese‐focused management papers were examined to answer four questions: (1) Has there been a relative increase in the proportion of Japanese‐focused papers published? (2) Has there been a relative increase in the proportion of Japanese‐focused Organizational Behavior (OB) papers...

Japanese‐focused management papers were examined to answer four questions: (1) Has there been a relative increase in the proportion of Japanese‐focused papers published? (2) Has there been a relative increase in the proportion of Japanese‐focused Organizational Behavior (OB) papers...