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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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Styhre, Alexander – Learning Organization, 2010
Purpose: Professional communities are capable of maintaining their social status and role in society on the basis of a blend of technical and formal expertise, know-how, and an understanding of the non-professional's demands and expectations. In architectural work, professional expertise largely centres on the visual capacities of the architect,…
Descriptors: Architecture, Visual Perception, Role, Foreign Countries
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Styhre, Alexander – Learning Organization, 2009
Purpose: Ethnographic studies of, for instance, laboratory work show that practices never reach a full closure but are always open to contingencies and ambiguities, making it possible to accommodate new empirical findings. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate that this is true also for less "high-brow" work in, for example, the construction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construction Industry, Construction Management, Ethnography
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Ingelgard, Anders; Roth, Jonas; Shani, A. B. (Rami); Styhre, Alexander – Learning Organization, 2002
Interviews with participants in research and development in a pharmaceutical company explored the use of organizational learning mechanisms to create knowledge. Results indicate that dynamic learning capability is embedded in and influenced by company culture, existing skills and competence, capacity for continuous change, and leadership.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Learning Processes, Organizational Development, Research and Development