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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Browaeys, Marie-Joelle; Fisser, Sandra – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: The aim of the paper is to contribute to the discussion of treating the concepts of lean and agile in isolation or combination by presenting an alternative view from complexity thinking on these concepts, considering an epistemological approach to this topic. Design/methodology/approach: The paper adopts an epistemological approach, using…
Descriptors: Models, Epistemology, Competition, Organizational Effectiveness
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Fisser, Sandra; Browaeys, Marie-Joelle – Learning Organization, 2010
Purpose: Organizations as complex networks aim to survive. The purpose of this paper is to provide an alternative perspective to current organizational challenges by considering team learning as key factor for surviving this turbulent environment. Design/methodology/approach: The dominating approach in this paper comes from the complexity…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Learning, Systems Approach, Organizational Change
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Browaeys, Marie-Joelle; Baets, Walter – Learning Organization, 2003
Culture is a complex process. Many authors show the importance of the concept of culture in organizations. The question which arises is how to approach the cultural problematic of organizations. The paper proposes that the traditional ways--based on the Cartesian epistemology--do not match with the cultural complexity, since it simplifies too much…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Learning, Organizational Culture, Difficulty Level