Organizational Learning - a brief note

Organizational Learning (OL), as a management theme, has been applied in various management subjects, e.g. in Information Technology management (re: Robey et al., 2000). There are a number of famous references in OL, e.g. Senge (1990) and Argyris (1990). OL is considered an important management topic in contemporary business environment which is increasingly turbulent. In this case, companies need to strengthen their learning capabilities to adapt to the turbulent environment in order to remain viable. Personally, I like the OL framework of Crossan, Lane and White (1999). I have applied OL in decision support systems studies in 1997 (Ho, 1997).

The journal of Development and Learning in Organizations published by Emerald is relevant for study of OL.



References

1. Argyris, C. (1990) Overcoming Organizational Defenses: Facilitating Organizational Learning, Allyn and Bacon.
2. Crossan, M.M., Lane, H.W. and White, R.E. (1999) "An organizational learning framework: from intuition institution", Academy of Management Review Vol. 24(3), pp. 522-537.
3. Ho, J.K.K. (1997) "MPSB Frameworks and Decision Support Systems Studies", Systems Research and Behavioural Science Vol. 14(4) pp. 287-293.
4. Robey, D., Boudreau, M.C. and Rose, G.M. "Review: Information technology and organizational learning: a review and assessment of research", Accounting, Management & Information Technology 10, 125-155.
5. Senge, P.M. (1990) The Fifth Discipline: the art & practice of the Learning Organization, Doubleday Currency.