Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have emerged as a tool for economic development intended to benefit low-income people since late 1990s. The goals of MFIs as development organizations are to serve the financial needs of un-served or under-served markets as a means of meeting development...

Although social interactions and exchanges between partners are emphasized as imperative for alliance success, comprehensive examination of how social exchanges facilitate learning and knowledge transfer in strategic alliances is lacking. Drawing on social exchange theory, we examined the...

Do “flat” egalitarian or hierarchical structures lead to higher organizational resilience against unexpected adversities such as supply chain crises, technological disruptions, and pandem- ics? The learning and unlearning perspective asserts that the time of adversity and its duration are...

Adaptability and knowledge management, key elements of organizational learning, are critical to organizational success as a result of a fundamental shift towards a knowledge economy. HR outsourcing and the growth in contingent work can result in a significant loss in learning capital through a...

The severe impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many organizations to close or even shut down temporarily. In the literature, previous attempts have pointed to the role of leaders and learning in supporting firms to innovate and overcome such harsh and turbulent situations. This study...

The purposes of this paper are to develop a comprehensive understanding of the differences between organizational learning and learning organization, to provide an evaluation of the existing literature, and to develop propositions for the future research agenda. Though highly used in the...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the underlying mechanisms of organisational learning within public research labs. Results of individual cognitive maps and congregate map, based on a critical case study, show inertia in the organisational learning with negative effects on strategic change...

The design of fully funded pension plans is affected by governance and incentive problems, as underlined by the experience of several countries. The analytic perspective of contract theory allows to detect the nature of such problems: pension-fund managers have strong incentives to manipulate...

This study examines the effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and DomesticInvestment (DI) on non-oil industrial production (comprising manufacturing and solidminerals) in Nigeria, using annual time series data spanning the period from 1981 to2018. The ARDL approach to co-integration and...

There were 47 million participants in 401(k) plans in 2005, up from just 8 million in the 1980s. More than 90 percent of 401(k) plan participants can choose how to invest their accounts, and nearly half invest in stock funds. That's a lot of money and a lot of investors. At bottom, the...