The impact of crises on organizations has been stronger than ever. This article explores the role of organizational learning in crisis management, an area that has received little attention from HRD community. Recognizing the dynamics and interconnectedness of crisis management, organizational learning, and organizational change, the article proposes an integrated model of managing crisis throu...

In this research, we conceptualize organizational learning as a manifestation of the collective learning behavior of knowledge agents in an organization. In a coalition or community of practice, each member possesses partial but complementary knowledge, so that only the team working together as a whole has the full body of knowledge. Organizational learning is exhibited as the change of organiz...

This study investigates the effects of information technology (IT) on exploration and exploitation in organizational learning (OL). We use qualitative evidence from previously published case studies of a single organization to extend an earlier computational model of organizational learning (March 1991) by introducing IT-enabled learning mechanisms: communication technology (e-mail), knowledge ...

From a social capital perspective, this article investigates how entrepreneurs in new ventures utilize their managerial ties (consisting of ties with other firms and ties with government) to capture opportunity. We also explore the moderating role of organizational learning (via exploratory learning and exploitative learning) in this process. Drawing on a sample of 159 new ventures, we find tha...

This paper investigates several issues regarding the nature, domain, conceptual foundations, and practical challenges of knowledge management and organizational learning. The paper first identifies and contrasts two fundamental philosophical orientations to knowledge management -the personal knowledge orientation and the organizational knowledge orientation -and illustrates the distinctive kind...

We first describe the state of the art of organizational learning, mentioning the theories and types of it. The need of organizational learning, contributing processes and the main processes are further explained. Various methods of organizational learning are introduced. A template for a short description is proposed, which gives an overview about existing methods. The template then offers the...

This paper synthesizes conceptual and empirical literature on organizational learning interventions based on dialogue. First, I attempt to delineate the concept of dialogue and to explain its relevance to organizational learning. Examples and arguments in support of dialogic learning initiatives are presented. Organizational realities and individual psychological dispositions which hinder such ...

There are two main streams of research related to alliance performance. From economic sociology perspective, relational capital is the dyadic factor determines alliance performance. Strong relational capital leads to good alliance performance. From organizational learning theory or competence-based theory perspective, alliance capability is the firm’s ability to achieve good alliance performanc...

This paper investigates the influence of organizational knowledge resource and learning capacity on the assimilation of information technology in small business context. We propose that in small business context organizational assimilation of new technology is dependent on the top executives’ decision to adopt the technology, which in turn is affected by their attitudes toward the technology. A...