We critically reflect on the field of organizational learning and present one way to advance this important area of research. We propose theory explication and empirical research – in particular research aimed at model testing and refinement – as viable avenues for addressing the fragmentation of the field. We identify the lack of measurement instruments for organizational learning as a key imp...

Knowledge has been a subject of interest and enquiry for thousands of years, since at least the time of the ancient Greeks, and no doubt even before that. “What is knowledge” continues to be an important topic of discussion in philosophy. More recently, interest in managing knowledge has grown in step with the perception that increasingly we live in a knowledge-based economy. Drucker is usually...

The conception of the organization as a system and not mechanism allows unique approach to growth organizations. In this approach, heart dynamism is in people through their work organization. anthropological requirements such are studied, inspired by reflections Leonardo Polo, who assumes systemic vision person Specifically, co-existence, personal knowledge, freedom love proposed central elemen...

Nonaka (1998) argued that for companies to prosper they must move away from a view of organizations as information processing entities with a focus on formal and systematic knowledge to exploit tacit knowledge. Much of the subsequent literature relates to commercial companies, often in North America. Public services in the UK are undergoing rapid change to improve cost effectiveness, customer f...

The focus on knowledge has shifted during the last decades. Nowadays, lifelong learning and the ability to work with knowledge belong to the key skills of our society. This is reflected by authors using terms like knowledge society (e.g., Nonaka, 1994) or knowledge age (e.g., Bereiter, 2002). The quantity of information, which is generated and also accessible due to the new information and comm...

a Department of Organization and Management, CUNEF School of Business and Finance, C/Leonardo Prieto Castro 2, 28040 Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain b Ikujiro Nonaka Research Centre on Knowledge and Innovation, CUNEF School of Business and Finance, C/Leonardo Prieto Castro 2, 28040 Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain c Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Business...

The idea that learners can have styles of learning derives from the work of Kolb, which stems from an inadequate theory of learning behaviour. Learning might better be placed within the context such as the knowledge creation cycle of Nonaka and Takeuchi. However this too has its epistemological problems. An alternative knowledge creation cycle is proposed that results in an alternative conceptu...

The Knowledge Management (KM) process is presented through the three components of Nonaka-Takeuchi theory, using methodology intertwined multiple case studies on a sample 10 Colombian companies: Five Large Businesses (LBs) and Small Medium-sized (SMBs). objective was to determine level KM compare both groups, based theory: four modes (4MDs), five conditions (5CDs), phases (5PSs). main findings ...

BACKGROUND Circadian clocks are synchronized to the solar day via visual and specialized photoreceptors. In Drosophila, CRYPTOCHROME (CRY) is a major photoreceptor that mediates resetting of the circadian clock via light-dependent degradation of the clock protein TIMELESS (TIM). However, in the absence of CRY, this TIM-mediated resetting still occurs in some pacemaker neurons, resulting in sync...