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50 Years of ERIC
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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Castro, Helio; Putnik, Goran D.; Shah, Vaibhav – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to analyze international and national research and development (R&D) programs and roadmaps for the manufacturing sector, presenting how agile and lean manufacturing models are addressed in these programs. Design/methodology/approach: In this review, several manufacturing research and development programs and…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Manufacturing Industry, National Programs, International Programs
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Putnik, Goran D.; Putnik, Zlata – Learning Organization, 2012
Purpose: The objective of this paper is to provide a deeper insight into the relationship of the issue "lean vs agile" in order to inform managers towards more coherent decisions especially in a dynamic, unpredictable, uncertain, non-linear environment. Design/methodology/approach: The methodology is an exploratory study based on secondary data…
Descriptors: Energy Conservation, Cost Effectiveness, Manufacturing Industry, Sustainable Development
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Putnik, Goran D. – Learning Organization, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present an examination of the concepts and mechanisms of complexity and learning usability and applicability for management in turbulent environments as well as their examination through the Chaordic system thinking (CST) lenses and framework. Contributing to awareness of how different mechanisms could be…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Prediction, Organizational Development, Difficulty Level
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van Eijnatten, Frans M.; Putnik, Goran D. – Learning Organization, 2004
The European Chaos and Complexity in Organizations Network (ECCON) held its Third Annual Meeting in Guimaraes, Portugal, June 2003, at the very same spot where the First Business Excellence conference was organized. As an outcome of that meeting, this TLO special brings together six ECCON members around the theme of "Chaordic Systems Thinking"…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Learning, Organizations (Groups)
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van Eijnatten, Frans M.; Putnik, Goran D. – Learning Organization, 2004
In order to set the stage for this special issue, the prime concepts are defined: i.e. "chaos," "complexity," "learning" (individual and organizational), "learning organization," and "chaordic enterprise". Also, several chaos-and-complexity-related definitions of learning and learning organizations are provided. Next, the guest editors' main…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Learning, Organizations (Groups), Business
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Putnik, Goran D.; van Eijnatten, Frans M. – Learning Organization, 2004
In this concluding paper the guest editors reflect on the contents of this special issue, and give some suggestions for future use of the CST framework. An interesting disclosure is that in chaos-and-complexity research the unit of measurement is not the individual human being, but the collective (i.e. dyad, team, or group), seen as a holon.…
Descriptors: Governance, Systems Approach, Cognitive Structures, Cooperative Learning