ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING STYLES: CATEGORIZING STRATEGIC PREDISPOSITIONS FROM LEARNING Available to Purchase

This paper describes a framework for investigating organizational learning style. The theory of learning styles developed for individual applications is extended to an organizational application. Learning styles of organizations may be best categorized by the preferences of both formal and informal systems of information handling. The link between organizational learning and strategy formulation is examined based on a learning style framework containing two dimensions: Abstract—Concrete and Random—Sequential. Different types of organizations will tend to exhibit different learning styles. Predispositions toward general patterns of strategy process and content are associated with each learning style.