Beyond the Learning Organisation

Theories of organizational learning, institutional settings and enactment - introduction, the roots of organizational learning in organization theory, the idea of organizational learning, learning revisited, towards an analysis of organizational learning processes in different social contexts; research design, company cases and methods of investigation - introduction, research interests, preparatory and selection phase, intensive research phase, phase of analysis, concluding comments; trajectories of learning in three East German companies - case study A-integration in a large industrial group, case study B-searching for a market niche, case study C-the creation of new markets; a systematic comparison of the cases - introduction, summary; intertwining organizational learning and institutional settings - introduction, institutional tensions in processes of organizational learning and their impact on the micro-macro problem, dissimilarities in the social construction of cultural systems and their impact on the micro-macro problem, concluding remarks and outlook.