The Emergence of Learning Communities: A Theoretical Analysis

Irma Bogenrieder and Bart Nooteboom

Chapter 2 in Organizations as Knowledge Systems, 2004, pp 46-66 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract A central issue in theories of organizational learning concerns the relation between knowledge of individuals and knowledge on the level of an organization (Cohen, 1991; Cook and Yanow, 1993; Weick and Westley, 1996). Communities form an intermediate level for learning between an organization as a whole and individual people. There, knowledge links between individuals are achieved and common knowledge is acquired. The central purpose of this chapter is to further analyse this process, in communities. One question to be explained is what types of communities there are (Bogenrieder and Nooteboom, 2002).

Keywords: Absorptive Capacity; Organizational Learning; Individual Learning; Learn Community; Exploration Type (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230524545_3

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