The Oxford Handbook of the Learning Organization
Published on 17. December 2019
Book
Hardback
540 pages
978-0-19-883235-5 (ISBN)
Description
The concept of the 'learning organization' is one of the most popular management ideas of the last few decades. Since it was conceived as an idea in its own right, it has been given various definitions and meanings, such that we are still faced with the question as to whether any unified understanding of what the learning organization really is can be established. This Handbook offers extensive reviews of both new and traditional perspectives on the concept and provides suggestions for how the learning organization can best be defined, practiced, studied, and developed in future research. With contributions from long-standing scholars in the field as well as those new to the area, this book aims to bridge the gap between traditional and more critical perspectives, and in doing so find alternative features and angles to take the idea forward.
In addition to elaborating on and developing older definitions of the learning organization and suggesting updated and even new definitions, the chapters also provide focused explorations on pertinent aspects of the learning organization such as ambidexterity, gender inclusivity, and systems thinking. They also survey organizations that have made efforts towards becoming learning organizations, how the learning organization can best be measured and studied, and the universality of the idea itself.
Some of the questions raised in this book are answered, or at least given tentative answers, while other questions are left open. In this way, the book has the ambition to take the learning organization an important step further, whilst having no intentions to take any final step; instead, the intention is that others will endeavour to continue where this book stops.
In addition to elaborating on and developing older definitions of the learning organization and suggesting updated and even new definitions, the chapters also provide focused explorations on pertinent aspects of the learning organization such as ambidexterity, gender inclusivity, and systems thinking. They also survey organizations that have made efforts towards becoming learning organizations, how the learning organization can best be measured and studied, and the universality of the idea itself.
Some of the questions raised in this book are answered, or at least given tentative answers, while other questions are left open. In this way, the book has the ambition to take the learning organization an important step further, whilst having no intentions to take any final step; instead, the intention is that others will endeavour to continue where this book stops.
Reviews / Votes
This is a big book full of original writing on a range of ideas, old and new, and it will be a valuable addition to the library of any university where the workings of organizations are researched and taught. * George Boak, Action Learning: Research and Practice *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
1100 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-883235-5 (9780198832355)
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Anders Örtenblad
The Oxford Handbook of the Learning Organization
E-Book
12/2019
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€136.99
Available for download
Anders Örtenblad
The Oxford Handbook of the Learning Organization
E-Book
12/2019
1st Edition
OUP eBook
€136.99
Available for download
Person
Anders OErtenblad is Professor of Work Life Science at University of Agder, Norway. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Learning Organization, and has published articles on the learning organization and organizational learning in journals such as Management Learning and International Journal of Management Reviews. Among books he has edited are a series of volumes on the adaptation of management ideas for various industries, sectors, national cultures, and religions, including the Handbook of Research on The Learning Organization: Adaptation and Context (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013).
Content
Part I: Introduction
1: Anders OErtenblad: Background and Introduction to the Learning Organization
2: Siu Loon Hoe: The Topicality of the Learning Organization: Is the Concept Still Relevant Today?
Part II: Definitions and Meanings of the 'Learning Organization'
3: Hong T.M. Bui: Senge's Learning Organization: Development of the Learning Organization Model
4: Karen E. Watkins and Victoria J. Marsick: Conceptualizing an Organization That Learns
5: Patrick J. Healy: Garvin's Learning Organization: A Process Perspective on Learning for Implementation, Improvement, and Innovation
6: Mike Pedler, Tom Boydell, and John Burgoyne: Learning Company: The Learning Organization According to Pedler, Burgoyne, and Boydell
7: Michael J. Marquardt: Building Learning Organizations with Action Learning
8: Bob Garratt: Personal Paradoxes in Learning to Design 'The Learning Organization'
9: Hong T.M. Bui: On Definitions of the Learning Organization: Toward a New Definition of Learning Organization
Part III: Aspects of the Learning Organization
10: Max Visser and Paul Tosey: Learning in the Learning Organization: Concepts and Antecedents
11: Alice Lam: Ambidextrous Learning Organizations
12: Peter Hawkins: How the Learning Organization Learns and its Culture Coevolves
13: Robert L. Flood and Hanne Finnestrand: A Mighty Step: Critical Systemic Interpretation of the Learning Organization
14: Anthony DiBella: From Learning Organizations to Learning Cultures and More: Evolutions in Theory, Changes in Practice, Continuity of Purpose
15: William D. Schneper, David Wernick, and Mary Ann Von Glinow: Stakeholders and the Learning Organization
16: Amanda Brazil: What is Needed to Create Gender Inclusive Learning Organizations
Part IV: Practicing the Learning Organization
17: Victoria J. Marsick and Karen E. Watkins: Interventions to Create a Learning Organization
18: Nancy M. Dixon: Glimpses of Organizations in the Act of Learning
19: Laurie Field: Pegasus or Clever White Horse? In Pursuit of Real Learning Organizations
Part V: Studying the Learning Organization
20: Amy C. Edmondson, Francesca Gino, and Patrick J. Healy: The Learning Organization Survey: Validation of an Instrument to Augment Research on Organizational Learning
21: Swee Chua Goh: Measurement of the Learning Organization Construct: A Critical Perspective and Future Directions for Research
22: Kyoungshin Kim and Zhenqiu (Laura) Lu: Learning Organization and Organizational Performance
23: Nhien Nguyen, Jens Ording Hansen, and Are Jensen: How Best to Study the Learning Organization
Part VI: The Universality of the Learning Organization
24: Peter Wyer and Shaun Bowman: The Potential To Nurture Small Businesses To Learning Organization Form
25: Anders OErtenblad: Contextualizing The Learning Organization: Towards Differentiated Standards
Part VII: New and Alternative Perspectives on The Learning Organization
26: Robert Chia: Becoming a Learning Organization: A Process-Philosophical Perspective
27: Helen D. Armstrong: The Learning Organization as a Practice of Becoming Human
28: Jacky Hong and Carry K.Y. Mak: The Empire Strikes Back: How Learning Organization Scholars can Learn from the Critiques
29: David M. Boje and Grace Ann Rosile: An Antenarrative Amendment to Learning Organization: Theories to Avert Sixth Extinction
30: Kenneth Molbjerg Jorgensen, Shih-wei Hsu, and Lone Hersted: The Learning Organization: A Critical Analysis and Future Directions
Part VIII: The Learning Organization in the Future
31: Tom Boydell, Mike Pedler, and John Burgoyne: The Future of the Learning Organization
32: Anders OErtenblad: Suggestions for Future Research on the Learning Organization
1: Anders OErtenblad: Background and Introduction to the Learning Organization
2: Siu Loon Hoe: The Topicality of the Learning Organization: Is the Concept Still Relevant Today?
Part II: Definitions and Meanings of the 'Learning Organization'
3: Hong T.M. Bui: Senge's Learning Organization: Development of the Learning Organization Model
4: Karen E. Watkins and Victoria J. Marsick: Conceptualizing an Organization That Learns
5: Patrick J. Healy: Garvin's Learning Organization: A Process Perspective on Learning for Implementation, Improvement, and Innovation
6: Mike Pedler, Tom Boydell, and John Burgoyne: Learning Company: The Learning Organization According to Pedler, Burgoyne, and Boydell
7: Michael J. Marquardt: Building Learning Organizations with Action Learning
8: Bob Garratt: Personal Paradoxes in Learning to Design 'The Learning Organization'
9: Hong T.M. Bui: On Definitions of the Learning Organization: Toward a New Definition of Learning Organization
Part III: Aspects of the Learning Organization
10: Max Visser and Paul Tosey: Learning in the Learning Organization: Concepts and Antecedents
11: Alice Lam: Ambidextrous Learning Organizations
12: Peter Hawkins: How the Learning Organization Learns and its Culture Coevolves
13: Robert L. Flood and Hanne Finnestrand: A Mighty Step: Critical Systemic Interpretation of the Learning Organization
14: Anthony DiBella: From Learning Organizations to Learning Cultures and More: Evolutions in Theory, Changes in Practice, Continuity of Purpose
15: William D. Schneper, David Wernick, and Mary Ann Von Glinow: Stakeholders and the Learning Organization
16: Amanda Brazil: What is Needed to Create Gender Inclusive Learning Organizations
Part IV: Practicing the Learning Organization
17: Victoria J. Marsick and Karen E. Watkins: Interventions to Create a Learning Organization
18: Nancy M. Dixon: Glimpses of Organizations in the Act of Learning
19: Laurie Field: Pegasus or Clever White Horse? In Pursuit of Real Learning Organizations
Part V: Studying the Learning Organization
20: Amy C. Edmondson, Francesca Gino, and Patrick J. Healy: The Learning Organization Survey: Validation of an Instrument to Augment Research on Organizational Learning
21: Swee Chua Goh: Measurement of the Learning Organization Construct: A Critical Perspective and Future Directions for Research
22: Kyoungshin Kim and Zhenqiu (Laura) Lu: Learning Organization and Organizational Performance
23: Nhien Nguyen, Jens Ording Hansen, and Are Jensen: How Best to Study the Learning Organization
Part VI: The Universality of the Learning Organization
24: Peter Wyer and Shaun Bowman: The Potential To Nurture Small Businesses To Learning Organization Form
25: Anders OErtenblad: Contextualizing The Learning Organization: Towards Differentiated Standards
Part VII: New and Alternative Perspectives on The Learning Organization
26: Robert Chia: Becoming a Learning Organization: A Process-Philosophical Perspective
27: Helen D. Armstrong: The Learning Organization as a Practice of Becoming Human
28: Jacky Hong and Carry K.Y. Mak: The Empire Strikes Back: How Learning Organization Scholars can Learn from the Critiques
29: David M. Boje and Grace Ann Rosile: An Antenarrative Amendment to Learning Organization: Theories to Avert Sixth Extinction
30: Kenneth Molbjerg Jorgensen, Shih-wei Hsu, and Lone Hersted: The Learning Organization: A Critical Analysis and Future Directions
Part VIII: The Learning Organization in the Future
31: Tom Boydell, Mike Pedler, and John Burgoyne: The Future of the Learning Organization
32: Anders OErtenblad: Suggestions for Future Research on the Learning Organization