– This paper aims to deepen the understanding of strategic learning through the lens of environmental jolts.
– Strategic learning is explained from the three paradigms of organizational learning.
– Organizational learning provides a firm foundation to develop and elaborate the concept of strategic learning that can help organizations gain competitive advantage and adaptive capability.
– Alan Meyer’s environmental jolt model is meaningful in that it is derived from stimulus–response model, which still explains important aspects of strategic learning.
– Embedding a strategic learning capability will help organizations development fit with external environments.
– This paper enlightens strategic learning as a Model II learning at the system level from a stimulus-response mechanism and opens up new possibilities of incorporating higher-order capability.
