Guest editorial

Senge’s (1990) theory of learning organization has survived more than three decades and the idea of the learning organization has become a well-established academic discipline. However, critical views also suggest that the concept of a learning organization fails to meet the wider purposes demanded by society, such as the demand for more environmentally responsible and socially equitable learning organizations (Hsu, 2013; Pedler and Burgoyne, 2017; Pedler and Hsu, 2014, 2019). There can be various reasons for this criticism. One of the main reasons is that Senge’s (1990) theory focused on “how an organization can learn,”...