The Structuration of Organizational Learning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9890328 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hans Berends (0000-0002-3334-2926, corresponding author), Kees Boersma (0000-0001-5550-4474, corresponding author), Mathieu Weggeman (0000-0001-6845-0903, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1035-1056 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-7267 • E-ISSN: 1741-282X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0018726703569001 |
| OpenAlex | W2121660868 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 46 |
Although it is currently common to speak of organizational learning, this notion is still surrounded by conceptual confusion. It is unclear how notions like learning, knowledge and cognitive activities can be applied to organizations. Some authors have tried to unravel the conceptual and ontological problems by giving an account of the role of individuals in organizational learning. However, this has not yet led to an agreed upon analysis. In this article we use structuration theory to overcome the dualism of individual and organization in organizational learning. We support, illustrate and elaborate our structurationist perspective by an ethnographic and historical study of an industrial research laboratory. We show how organizational learning evolves from distributed social practices, creatively realized by knowledgeable individuals, and illustrate how these practices are enabled and constrained by existing structur
Cognition · Cognitive science · Confusion · Dualism · Epistemology · Knowledge management · Organization development · Organizational learning · Organizational studies · Perspective (graphical · Sociology · Structuration theory · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Innovation and Knowledge Management · Management and Organizational Studies · Organizational Learning and Leadership · Psychology
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Revisiting the notion of boundary object
Resilience Among Social Workers
Understanding Dimensions of Organizational Evaluation Capacity
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Retour sur la notion d'objet-frontière
Regreso sobre la noción de objeto frontera
Global human mobility and knowledge transfer
The Role of Institutions and Capital in Intersectoral Collaboration
Ambiguity and choice in organizations
The Manufacture of Knowledge
Cognition in the Wild
Institutionalization and Structuration
Bounded Rationality and Organizational Learning
The firm as a distributed knowledge system
Culture and Organizational Learning
Organizational Routines Are Stored as Procedural Memory
Organizational Learning
Organizational Learning
Organizational Learning and Communities-of-Practice
A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation
The social construction of reality
Knowledge and social imagery
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
The Concept of Mind
To Transfer is to Transform
Social Theory of Modern Societies
Cognition and Communication at Work
Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects
The Rôle of the Organization in the Production of Techno-Scientific Knowledge
Changing Research Cultures in U.S. Industry
Power and emotion in organizational learning
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Where Learning is
Disciplines of Organizational Learning
The constitution of society
Organizational Learning
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Situated Learning
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,88 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2024 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |