Programmed, autonomous-formal and spontaneous organizational learning

Article Abstract:

The article examines programmed organizational learning and autonomous-formal organizational learning. The relative emphasis these receive depend on management philosophy and institutional characteristics such as franchisee status and professionalization. A dispersed form, spontaneous organizational learning, is also examined, and found to be attenuated when knowledge was regarded as a commodity.

Hong Kong

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Translating Local Knowledge at Organizational Peripheries

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The article examines the conflict between local and putative expert knowledge and how the former, which is garnered by practitioners working across a wide community, is usually discounted by the latter, which is held by centrally located executives and managers. Discussion focuses on these geographic and hierarchical peripheries.

Influence, Corporate culture, Office politics

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Introduction: Knowledge Construction and Creation in Organizations

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The introduction of the special issue on organizational knowledge focuses on examining the practices and processes that are used to create knowledge within organizations, and how politics and power impact competing forms of knowledge.

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