Professor Meinolf Dierkes
"Organizational Learning under Various Environmental Conditions"
Chair: Professor Meinolf Dierkes, Academic Center Berlin for Social Research (WZB)
Overview:
Conference on November 16 - 17, 2001
"Organizations in the 21st Century:
Knowledge and Learning - the Basis of Growth"
at the Academic Center Berlin for Social Research (WZB)
Professor Meinolf Dierkes
The WZB and the Foundation jointly hosted the conference. The presentation of five years of research in the Ladenburg Collegium "Organizational Learning" was central to the meeting. Participants of the collegium together with their colleagues offered eleven different workshops. Topics among others were: Learning as a Social Process, Learning in the Public and Private Sector, The Learning Organization its Environment.
Professor Gisbert Frhr. zu Putlitz
Accompanying the workshops, six different speakers discussed the topic from scientific, economic and artistic perspectives.
Contributors:
Extensive documentation is available.
The journalist Steve Barth wrote a detailed report on the conference. This report, the full text of the lectures and images can be obtained at this address:
http://www.global-insight.com/WZB/
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Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge
Meinolf Dierkes, Ariane Berthoin Antal, John Child, Ikujiro Nonaka (eds.):Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge, Oxford University Press, August 2001,
940 pages, Hardcover, ISBN: 0-19-829583-9,
Price: BP 65,00 / $ 95,00
(until October 31st 2001: BP 55,00 / $ 85.00)
The Shanghai's People Publishing House has published the handbook in the Chinese language.
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The Ladenburg Collegium
"Organizational Learning under Various Environmental Conditions"
Corporations today are under increasing pressure to adapt. The reason is structural change in science and technology, political upheaval and the new demands in modern societies.
Corporations, just like organizations in general, learn differently than an individual. The focus of this research concerning organizational learning is the question of what kind of learning processes will be typical for organizations. Primarily academics from the fields of economics, business and management participated in the collegium. In this collegium, experts and scholars from eleven countries worked together with management consultants and added new original projects to their own previous research. Chair of the collegium was Professor Meinolf Dierkes, Berlin. Together with external contributors, the collegium has presented a handbook on the most recent research on organizational learning.
Projects of the college
Research Area 1: Learning as Organizational Development
"Organizational Learning in China, Germany, and Israel"
Professor Dr. Meinolf Dierkes, Academic Center Berlin for Social Research
Research Area 2: The Role of Crisis in Organizational Learning
"Managing Warsaw in the 1990s: A Case of Forced Learning"
Professor Dr. Barbara Czarniawska, Gothenburg Research Institute (GRI), School of Economics and Law
"Standard Operating Procedures and Organizational Learning"
Professor Dr. Alfred Kieser, University of Mannheim, Department of Business and Management
Research Area 3: Relationships between Individual Learning, Learning in Groups and Organizational Learning
"Knowledge-Creation and Middle Management: Roles and Contextuality of Knowledge"
Professor Dr. Ikujiro Nonaka, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa
"Organizational Learning and Human Resource Development"
Professor Dr. Hans Merkens, Free University of Berlin, Department of Empirical Research in Education
Research Area 4: Processes of Organizational Learning
"Covering Risks-Running Risks: Insurance Companies as Learning Organizations"
Professor Dr. Hedwig Rudolph, Academic Center Berlin for Social Research
"Organizational Learning Processes in Downsizing"
Professor Dr. Ariane Berthoin Antal, Academic Center Berlin for Social Research
Research Area 5: Organizational Structure and Organizational Learning
"International Firms as Learning Organizations – Configurations and Processes of Organizational Learning in International Networks"
Professor Dr. Klaus Macharzina
University Hohenheim, Institute for Business and Management