Unlearning in organizations: Understanding and rethinking the way organizations learn and change

formation and evolution of regional organizations: the case study of the economic cooperation organization (eco)

abstract because of the many geopolitical, geo economical and geo strategically potentials and communicational capabilities of eco region, members can expand the convergence and the integration in base of this organization that have important impact on members development and expanding peace in international and regional level. based on quality analyzing of library findings and experts interv...

Advanced Social Simulations: Innovating the way we learn how to manage change in organizations

Over the last few years the Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies of the European Institute of Business Administration has pioneered a new approach to teach subjects such as change management, innovation and diffusion dynamics which has been already successfully adopted by universities such as Stanford, MIT, or Wharton, as well as by a number of large corporations. The key to this eLearning...

Understanding Processes in Organizations

We contribute to the evolving theory of organizational processes by developing a precise conceptualization of process. We argue that processes are assemblies of activities and explore constraints on assembling them. We observe that assembling activities into processes often requires performance of additional activities. We illustrate the applicability of these ideas to a case of restaurant serv...

SUSTAINING CHANGE in ORGANIZATIONS

Rethinking competence systems for knowledge-based organizations

Received: 26 July 2001 Revised: 21 February 2002 : 10 July 2002 Accepted: 23 August 2002 Abstract Existing competence systems are based on a rationalistic view of competence. While these competence systems might work in job-based organizations, we argue that in more dynamic settings, such as in knowledge-based organizations, the interest-informed actions that capture the emergent competencies o...