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ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING DIMENSIONS FOR A THEORY

ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING DIMENSIONS FOR A THEORY Organizational learning OL is receiving increasing attention from researchers and practitioners alike. In fact, some have suggested that the only sustainable competitive advantage is a firm's ability to learn faster than its competitors. In spite of OL's promise, the field has been slow to evolve. The primary impediments to the development of OL theory are that inconsistent terminology is used for comparable concepts and that different definitions are used to describe the phenomenon. Furthermore, many theorists have neglected to make explicit their underlying assumptions about the phenomenon. Employing an inductive approach, this review surfaces the implicit and explicit assumptions of OL researchers, identifying three key dimensions that differentiate perspectives 1 unit of analysisindividual, group, organizational, and inter organizational 2 cognitivebehavioral emphasis and 3 the learningperformance relationship. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The International Journal of Organizational Analysis Emerald Publishing

ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING DIMENSIONS FOR A THEORY

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Emerald Publishing
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Abstract

Organizational learning OL is receiving increasing attention from researchers and practitioners alike. In fact, some have suggested that the only sustainable competitive advantage is a firm's ability to learn faster than its competitors. In spite of OL's promise, the field has been slow to evolve. The primary impediments to the development of OL theory are that inconsistent terminology is used for comparable concepts and that different definitions are used to describe the phenomenon. Furthermore, many theorists have neglected to make explicit their underlying assumptions about the phenomenon. Employing an inductive approach, this review surfaces the implicit and explicit assumptions of OL researchers, identifying three key dimensions that differentiate perspectives 1 unit of analysisindividual, group, organizational, and inter organizational 2 cognitivebehavioral emphasis and 3 the learningperformance relationship.

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The International Journal of Organizational Analysis – Emerald Publishing

Published: Apr 1, 1995

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