...Jean-Paul Peronard Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the link between the organizing of service networks and interorganizational learning strategies. Design/methodology/approach By deepening the conceptual understanding of service networks and their central properties...

...Raid Moh'd Al‐adaileh; Khadra Dahou; Ishaq Hacini Purpose The purpose of this research is to explore the influence of the knowledge conversion processes (KCP) on the success of a learning organization (LO) strategy implementation. Design/methodology/approach Using a case study approach...

... this is mostly informal, ad hoc and implicit. One club adopts a personalisation and the other a codification KM strategy. For both clubs, the football success takes precedence over business success. Emergent findings show that there is scope to improve explicit and formal knowledge management strategies...

...Mariano Nieto; Waldo Pérez Firm assets are the most important element in strategy formulation and implementation. A company’s grounds to success can be found here. However, not all are equally important. Some will be considered strategic and others ordinary, depending on how influential...

... face the challenge of developing strategies that will allow them to survive while creating profits and stability for its stakeholders (Booth and Philip, 1998). The goal of a firm’s strategy is to obtain a sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) (Slater, 1996). When Day and Wensley (1988) found...

... their decisions against the criteria of the Learning Square to improve the effectiveness of competitive strategies. 1. (1) to provide a clarification and synthesis of key organizational learning ideas in order to increase the opportunity for their application by managers; 2. (2) to apply a new...

... instruments should be developed for more specific purposes. The article is aimed at an audience involved in learning organizations and their development. Learning organizations Diagnosing Measuring instruments Strategy Whole system Over the past years, the discussion on learning organizations...

... on this, a model for competence development is proposed. This is the main contribution of the paper. The paper then concludes with a number of questions yet to be answered by research on competence‐based strategy. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Competences Organizational learning Competency framework Strategy...

... Knowledge management Downsizing Strategy A Disclosure (an on‐line database of annual reports updated to the latest quarter) search revealed that, in 1997, 180 industrial firms and 131 service firms remained in business under their 1988 name. A total of 189 firms did not appear in Disclosure in 1997...

... consultants have long been aware of this. Mike   Peddler and Kath   Aspinwall . A Concise Guide to the Learning Organisation . London : Lemos and Crane   1998 . , ISBN: ISBN Warned‐8898001‐43‐X Workplace learning Strategy Organizational change What do the topics...

...Jim Grieves Nancy M.   Dixon . Talk, Authenticity and Action Learning in the Learning Organisation: Dialogue at Work . London : Lemos and Crane   1998 . , ISBN: ISBN 1‐898001‐41‐3 Workplace learning Strategy Organizational change Nancy Dixon provides...

... consider that the function of emancipatory learning is to identify the old Marxian category of “false consciousness”. Reg   Revans . ABC of Action Learning . London : Lemos and Crane   1998 . , ISBN: ISBN 1‐898001‐42‐1 Workplace learning Strategy Organizational change...

...Pam Swain Examines the current environment for management in terms of development strategies. Evaluates various change strategies and theoretical frameworks for competitive advantage. Discusses the uncertainty managers are faced with when deciding on strategies for performance improvement...

.... Discusses problems associated with power, information loss, and cultural knowledge. Sets out a view of organizational learning which emphasizes that learning can occur at the organizational level through processes. Strategy can be determined essentially by leadership at the top or be incrementally...

...Will Rifkin; Liz Fulop Examines popular theories of learning in organizations to highlight their limitations for reform and change. Divides learning approaches into four general strategies ‐ organizational learning, learning organization, learning environment, and “learning space”. Examines how...

... on organizational learning and outlines three core elements which are considered to be essential: strategy; knowledge; and leadership. Discusses the major themes of the course, dealing with the basic concepts of learning in organizations. Presents a framework which can be used as a template to assist in the study...

...,describing learning competences which must be acquired, and illustrates this by using the Weatherhead School of Management′s approach to executive learning. © Company 1995 Business schools Learning organizations Organizational change Strategy Business schools must become learning...

... and flatter organizations mean a new challenge for managers and therefore a new national strategy for the development of British management if required. Business schools Organizational change Strategy Training management The creation of training boards in the 1960s led eventually to training...

...Stephen A.W. Drew; Peter A.C. Smith It is advantageous to link organizational learning with strategies for restructuring, business process re‐engineering and corporate transformation. Such radical change can best succeed if attention is first paid to overall organizational readiness. Suggests...