... Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Organizational learning Continuous improvement Sustainability Organizational change Kaizen After the Second World War, during the period of strong economic growth, western car manufacturers used their abundant...

...Kumaraguru Mahadevan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the research carried out on a conceptual approach in business improvement termed as culture driven regeneration (CDR). The research positions CDR as business improvement tool that leverages organizational learning, organization...

... an internal stability. For the authors, both types of organization, which “fight fires” and which improves continuously, are dynamic. The difference between them lies in the fact that the former is characterized by internal instability and the latter has a stable structure. Organizational learning can...

... Change , Jossey-Bass Publishers , San Francisco, CA . Argyris, C. and Schön, D.A. (1996), Organizational Learning II, Theory, Method, and Practice , Addison-Wesley , Reading...

... approaches to quality, so that an adaptive learning TQM culture can be cultivated. In striving for this ambition and based on a review and synthesis of the literature, a framework for facilitating organizational learning and change in construction organizations is presented. © MCB UP Limited 2000...

...Frances M. Hill Explains why companies wishing to make the transition to TQM must address the issue of organizational learning. Provides some evidence that quality circles (QCs) can facilitate organizational learning in the quality context. Discusses three theoretical stages of organizational...

... in supporting major step(discontinuous) change. A more subtle potential shortfall in TQM is the extent to which an ethos of continuous improvement impacts on organizational learning. All learning can be said to start with a question; the quality of the question in large measure impacting on the quality...