Social Structures for Learning
2001-12-10
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This article investigates what learning groups there are in organizations, other than the familiar 'communities of practice'. It first develops an interdisciplinary theoretical framework for identifying, categorizing and understanding learning groups. For this, it employs a constructivist, interactionist theory of knowledge and learning. It employs elements of transaction cost theory and of social theory of trust. Transaction cost economics neglects learning and trust, but elements of the theory are still useful. The framework is used in an empirical study in a consultancy company, to explore what learning groups there are, and to see if our theory can explain their functioning and their success or failure.
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Classifications using
Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) Classification System
- M : Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting
- L2 : Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
- M10 : Business Administration: General
- D83 : Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge
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- group
- knowledge
- project
- trust
- member
- organization
- practice
- community
- theory
- basis
- spillover
- management
- consultant
- people
- information
- distance
- development
- level
- partner
- investment
