... 24 05 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Pragmatism Organizational culture Acculturation Organisational poetics Organisational schooling It was and still is the dream of actually constituting communities...

... Licensed re-use rights only Learning organizations Pragmatism Organizational learning Practices Processes In his editorial in The Learning Organization (TLO), Örtenblad (2018) asks “what does ‘learning organization’ mean?” and answers by introducing five versions of a learning...

... to develop in the West a different philosophical approach may be needed. Design/methodology/approach The Chinese worldview, and Chinese pragmatism in particular, are discussed in the context of learning organisations. A link is made with the American pragmatism of Dewey. These philosophical traditions...

...Peter A.C. Smith; Steven A. Cavaleri Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the future prospects of the popular concept known as the learning organization; to trace the influence of philosophical pragmatism on the learning organization and to consider its potential impact on the future...

... pragmatic. At one end, there are mechanistic, information‐based approaches that are actionable, but are often based on flawed philosophical grounds in that they fail to connect beliefs with action through knowledge. At the other extreme are approaches that are philosophically meritorious, but which...