Managers in a global business environment work with people who have different values, behavioral norms, and ways of perceiving reality. Team members bring their different national and professional backgrounds to the table, and suppliers and clients come from different corporate cultures....

Die Entwicklung neuer Ansätze zur Förderung lebenslangen Lernens stellt eine der zentralen Herausforderungen an die empirische Erziehungswissenschaft dar. Es besteht ein Bedarf an Methoden, die sowohl individuelles als auch Gruppenlernen unterstützen, die der wachsenden Internationalisierung...

This article explores the wide range of roles that consultants can play to either enable or hinder organizational learning processes. A core concept in this analysis is the achievement of an appropriate marginality of the consultants’ role, in order to allow the organizational members to...

This paper describes experiences with an innovative method to stimulate individual, group and organizational learning in a management context. It highlights the demands placed on management development today and illustrates in detail how the live case workshop method can help meet these demands....

In order to explore the potential contributions that returned expatriates can make towards helping their organizations to better understand and manage culturally diverse and changing conditions, a pilot study was conducted in two German-based companies with a long tradition of international...

The purpose of this article is to explore organizational learning processes by examining how companies learn to do something new, namely downsize, on the basis of a small sample of companies in Europe. In a first step, the range of possible responses to downsizing, as discussed in the...