From learning organization to practically wise organization

The Learning Organization

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 356-372

  Rowley, Jennifer ^a   Gibbs, Paul ^b  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business ethics; Corporate social responsibility; Learning organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 48449102981     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: 1758905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470810898357     Document Type: Article

References (63)

1. Argyris, C. (1990), Overcoming Organisational Differences: Facilitating Organisational Learning, Allyn & Bacon, Boston, MA.
2. Argyris, C. and Schon, D. (1978), Organisational Learning, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA.
3. Aristotle (2000), Nicomachean Ethics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
4. Bierly, P.E. III, Kessler, E.H. and Christensen, E.W. (2000), “Learning, knowledge and wisdom”, Journal of Organisational Change Management, Vol. 13 No. 6, pp. 595–618.
5. Blackman, D., Connelly, J. and Henderson, S. (2004), “Does double loop learning create reliable knowledge?”, The Learning Organization, Vol. 11 No. 1, pp. 11–27.
6. Boal, K.B. and Hooijberg, R. (2001), “Strategic leadership research: moving on”, Leadership Quarterly, Vol. 11 No. 4, pp. 515–49.
7. Burgoyne, J. (1999), “Design of the times”, People Management, Vol. 5 No. 11, pp. 38–44.
8. Case, P. and Gosling, J. (2007), “Wisdom of the moment: pre-modern perspectives on organizational action”, Social Epistemology, Vol. 21 No. 2, pp. 87–111.
9. Cavaleri, S.A. (2004), “Leveraging organizational learning for knowledge and performance”, The Learning Organization, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 159–76.
10. Choo, C.W. (1996), “The knowing organisation: how organisations use information to construct meaning, create knowledge and make decisions”, International Journal of Information Management, Vol. 16 No. 5, pp. 329–40.
11. Choo, C.W. (2006), The Knowing Organization: How Organizations Use Information to Construct Meaning, Create Knowledge, and Make Decisions, Oxford University Press, New York, NY and Oxford.
12. Firestone, J.M. and McElroy, M.W. (2004), “Organizational learning and knowledge management: the relationship”, The Learning Organization, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 177–84.
13. Garrett, B. (1987), The Learning Organisation and the Need for Directors Who Think, Gower, Aldershot.
14. Garvin, D.A. (1993), “Building a learning organization”, Harvard Business Review, Vol. 71 No. 4, pp. 78–91.
15. Goh, S.C. (2003), “Improving organizational learning capability: lessons for two case studies”, The Learning Organization, Vol. 10 No. 4, pp. 216–27.
16. Gosling, J. and Mintzberg, H. (2004), “The five minds of a manager”, The Weekend Australian Financial Review, Summer, pp. 64–5.
17. Hambrick, D.C. (1989), “Guest editor's introduction: putting top managers back into the strategy picture”, Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 36, pp. 844–63.
18. Hawkins, P. (1994), “Organizational learning: taking stock and facing the challenge”, Management Learning, Vol. 25 No. 3, pp. 433–61.
19. Heidegger, M. (1975), The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays, Harper & Row, New York, NY.
20. Henderson, S. (1997), “Black swans don't fly double loops: the limits of the learning organisation?”, The Learning Organization, Vol. 4 No. 3, pp. 99–105.
21. Jackson, B. (2000), “A fantasy theme analysis of Peter Senge's learning organization”, The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 193–209.
22. Jackson, B. (2001), Management Gurus and Management Fashions: A Dramatistic Enquiry, Routledge, London.
23. Jones, C.A. (2005), “Wisdom paradigms for the enhancement of ethical and profitable business practices”, Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 57 No. 3, pp. 363–75.
24. Jones, P., Comfort, D. and Hillier, D. (2005), “Corporate social responsibility and the UK's top ten retailers”, International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, Vol. 33 No. 12, pp. 882–92.
25. Leitch, C., Harrison, R., Burgoyne, J. and Blantern, C. (1996), “Learning organizations: the measurement of company performance”, Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 20 No. 1, pp. 31–44.
26. Leonard-Barton, D. (1992), “The factory a learning laboratory”, Sloan Management Review, Vol. 34 No. 1, pp. 23–38.
27. Lessem, R. (1991), Total Quality Learning: Building a Learning Organisation, Blackwell, Oxford.
28. McKenna, B. and Rooney, D. (2005), “Wisdom management: tensions between theory and practice in practice”, available at: kmap2005.vuw.ac.nz/papers/Wisdom%20Management.pdf.
29. McKenna, B., Rooney, D. and Liesch, P.W. (2006), “Beyond knowledge to wisdom in international business strategy”, Prometheus, Vol. 24 No. 3, pp. 283–300.
30. Moilanen, R. (2001), “Diagnostic tools for learning organizations”, The Learning Organization, Vol. 8 No. 1, pp. 6–20.
31. Nonaka, I. (1991), “The knowledge creating company”, Harvard Business Review, Vol. 69 No. 12, pp. 96–104.
32. Nonaka, I. and Takeuchi, H. (1995), The Knowledge Creating Company, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
33. Nonaka, I. and Toyama, R. (2007), “Strategic management as distributed practical wisdom”, Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 16 No. 3, pp. 371–94.
34. Ortenblad, A. (2004), “The learning organization: towards an integrated model”, The Learning Organization, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 129–44.
35. Ortenblad, A. (2007), “Senge's many faces: problem or opportunity?”, The Learning Organization, Vol. 14 No. 2, pp. 108–22.
36. Pearn, M., Roderick, C. and Mulrooney, C. (1995), Learning Organisations in Practice, McGraw-Hill, London.
37. Pedlar, M., Burgoyne, J. and Boydell, T. (1991), The Learning Company, McGraw-Hill, London.
38. Pedlar, M., Burgoyne, J., Boydell, T. and Welshman, G. (1990), Self Development in Organisations, McGraw-Hill, Maidenhead.
39. Popper, K. (1979), Objective Knowledge, rev. ed., Clarendon Press, Oxford.
40. Prusak, L. and Davenport, T. (2003), “Who are the gurus' gurus?”, Harvard Business Review, Vol. 81 No. 12, pp. 14–16.
41. Ricart, J.E., Rodriguez, M.A. and Sanchez, P. (2005), “Sustainability in the boardroom”, Corporate Governance, Vol. 5 No. 3, pp. 24–41.
42. Rooney, D. and McKenna, B. (2005), “Should the knowledge-based economy be a savant or a sage? Wisdom and socially intelligent innovation”, Prometheus, Vol. 23 No. 3, pp. 307–23.
43. Rowley, J. (2000), “From learning organisation to knowledge entrepreneur”, Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 4 No. 1, pp. 7–15.
44. Rowley, J. and Slack, F. (2008), “Conceptions of wisdom”, under consideration.
45. Senge, P. (1990), The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, Century, London.
46. Senge, P., Kleiner, A., Roberts, C., Roth, R. and Smith, B. (1999), The Dance of Change: The Challenges of Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations, Brealey, London.
47. Small, A. and Irvine, P. (2006), “Towards a framework for organizational learning”, The Learning Organization, Vol. 13 No. 3, pp. 276–99.
48. Smith, M.K. (2003), “Peter Senge and the learning organization”, E-journal of Organizational Learning and Leadership, Vol. 2 No. 1, available at: www.weleadinlearning.org/msapr03.htm
49. Stahl, T., Nyham, B. and D'Aloja, P. (1992), The Learning Organization: A Vision for Human Resource Development, Eurotecnet Technical Assistance Office, Commission of the European Communities, Brussels.
50. Starkey, K. (1996), How Organisations Learn, International Thompson, London.
51. Statler, M., Roos, J. and Victor, B. (2006), “Illustrating the need for practical wisdom”, International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy, Vol. 2 No. 1, pp. 1–30.
52. Watkins, K.E. and Golembiewski, R.T. (1995), “Rethinking organization development for the learning organization”, The International Journal of Organizational Analysis, Vol. 3 No. 1, pp. 86–101.
53. Barnett, R. (2003), Beyond All Reason: Living with Ideology in the University, Open University Press, Milton Keynes.
54. Bourdieu, P. (2006), Outline of a Theory of Practice, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
55. Dreyfus, H. and Dreyfus, S. (1986), Mind over Machines: The Power of Human Intuitive Expertise in the Era of Computer, Free Press, New York, NY.
56. Heidegger, M. (1997), “Plato's Sophist”, trans. by Ed. Rojcewicz, R. and Ed. Schuwer, A., Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN.
57. Heidegger, M. (2000), Letter on Humanism, Basic Writings, Harper & Row, New York, NY.
58. MacIntyre, A. (2003), Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN.
59. Moss-Jones, J. (1992), The Learning Organisation, Institute of Management, Corby.
60. Noel, J. (1999), “On the varieties of phronesis”, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Vol. 31 No. 3, pp. 273–89.
61. Senge, P.M., Roberts, C., Ross, R.B., Smith, B.J. and Kleiner, A. (1994), The Fifth Discipline Field Book: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization, Nicholas Brealey, London.
62. Wiggins, D. (1980), “Deliberation, and practical reasoning”, in Ed. Rorty, A. (Ed.), Essays on Aristotle's Ethics, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, pp. 221–40.
63. Wilson, V.J., McCormack, B.G. and Ives, G. (2005), “Understanding the workplace culture of a special care nursery”, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Vol. 50 No. 1, pp. 27–38.