Purpose – Owing to its specificities, the family small and medium enterprise (SME) shows a particular behavior as for the creation, development, sharing, protection and transmission of knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to study the specificities of the processes of knowledge creation and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate critically the outcomes of a research project involving collaboration with an irrigation company seeking to improve outcomes from its triple bottom line (TBL) reporting process. Given the imminent basin-wide crisis within which the...

Fast product innovation and creativity is driving the development strategies of the most nations enjoying high economic growth. The development of fast innovative new products needs to be based on a close alignment between technology, products and markets, with a focus on achieving increased...

Polish national culture is explored from the perspective of its capacity to absorb the recommendations and requirements of organizational culture in knowledge-based, learning organizations. The issue is important because more and more Polish firms start to operate in the so-called high-tech...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to apply the organizational learning framework to the management accounting literature to better understand why management accounting innovations succeed or fail in organizations. Design/methodology/approach – A theoretical framework integrating...

To learn problem solving and the development of learning organizations has been added to the agenda; Therefore, organizational learning and ultimately, learning organizations, that meet the needs of current challenges such as environmental change, competition and quality are met. Peter Senge's...

Purpose - This study seeks to examine the impact of downsizing and restructuring decisions and processes on perceptions of organisational knowledge and effectiveness after downsizing and restructuring events in "successful" and "unsuccessful" organisations. Design/methodology/approach - The...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to assess the validity and reliability of the measurement scores related to the learning organization culture, the Dimensions of Learning Organization Questionnaire (DLOQ), in an Iranian context. This research can contribute to the growing literature...

Purpose – This is a case study paper. A major research goal of this study is to extend the existing theories of learning organization put forth in the 4I model by adding more complicated ideas to it. One minor goal of this research is to show that the first stage of organizational learning,...

This paper analyzes the situation of the Indo US Knowledge Initiative on Agriculture, by using the science studies approach.