Intertwining organisational learning and institutional settings: Evidence from organisational case studies in East German context

Modelling Organisational Information Processing - Implications from Organisational Learning, Organisational Psychology and Sociology, Organisational Memory and Knowledge Management -

This paper presents a model for organisational information processing (OIP model) which is used to introduce a theoretical frame for the analysis of the potentials of information and communication technologies, tools and systems to support organisations in organisational information processing. Apart from the well known analysis of individual information processing in the categories of informat...

Organisational Learning in India - Creating the Organisational Learning Space

Indian organisations have transformed organisational learning to face multiple challenges posed by external market conditions, legal and regulatory considerations and internal factors. The way Indian organisations have developed their learning platforms and learning delivery has been instrumental in equipping a global workforce with the required knowledge and skills. This has, in turn, reduced ...

Analysing organisational context: case studies on the contribution of absorptive capacity theory to understanding inter-organisational variation in performance improvement.

BACKGROUND Organisational context is frequently cited as an important consideration when implementing and evaluating quality improvement interventions in healthcare, but limited guidance is available on which aspects of context are most influential or modifiable. This paper examines how internal and external contextual factors mediate organisational-level performance improvement through applyin...

Strategies for Sustainability: Institutional and Organisational Challenges

Sustainable Development (SD) is a global role model that claims to function as a general orientation for shaping societal processes, i.e., local, regional, national and international development. This is in line with the Brundtland and justice-oriented understanding of the term. It is understood as a role model and sometimes also interpreted as a regulative ideal. However, it does not state how...

The Experience of Loneliness in Organisational Settings