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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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Schaal, Markus; Fidan, Guven; Muller, Roland M.; Dagli, Orhan – Learning Organization, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is the presentation of a new method for blog quality assessment. The method uses the temporal sequence of link creation events between blogs as an implicit source for the collective tacit knowledge of blog authors about blog quality. Design/methodology/approach: The blog data are processed by the novel method for…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Quality Control, Evaluation Methods
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Schulz, Klaus-Peter; Geithner, Silke – Learning Organization, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss how communication and cooperation in inter-organizational networks may bring about organizational learning. A case study of 13 inter-organizational school networks in Germany is carried out for this purpose. Design/methodology/approach: Results of a quantitative survey assessing the performance of…
Descriptors: Learning, Schools, Organizational Communication, Institutional Cooperation
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van Winkelen, Christine – Learning Organization, 2010
Purpose: This paper aims to develop the understanding of how organizations can derive more value from participating in inter-organizational learning collaborations. Design/methodology/approach: The collaboration is viewed as one "level" within an extended organizational learning system and both feedback processes between levels and the dynamics…
Descriptors: Organizations (Groups), Learning, Institutional Cooperation, Foreign Countries
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MacGillivray, Alice – Learning Organization, 2010
Purpose: Canada's Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Research and Technology Initiative (CRTI) uses an operating model that is unusual in government. It is created to enable cross-boundary capability and capacity building and learning. Some consider it a model for other federal science initiatives. The purpose of this paper is to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership, Communities of Practice, Social Networks
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Haslett, Tim; Barton, John; Stephens, John; Schell, Liz; Olsen, Jane – Learning Organization, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explain the emergent nature of leadership in a university-based learning network of mature-aged practitioner-scholars. Design/methodology/approach: The paper draws on previously published work, interviews, and current research. Findings: The paper finds that once initial structures have been established,…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Action Research, Doctoral Programs, Leadership
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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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de Toni, Alberto F.; Nonino, Fabio – Learning Organization, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the key roles embedded in the informal organizational structure (informal networks) and to outline their contribution in the companies' performance. A major objective of the research is to find and characterize a new key informal role that synthesises problem solving, expertise, and accessibility…
Descriptors: Role, Administrative Organization, Leadership, Social Networks
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Kohtamaki, Marko – Learning Organization, 2010
Purpose: Relationship learning is a topic of considerable importance for industrial networks, yet a lack of empirical research on the impact of relationship governance structures on relationship learning remains. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of relationship governance structures on learning in partnerships.…
Descriptors: Governance, Partnerships in Education, Multivariate Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Chan, Kin Hang – Learning Organization, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper, which is written in two parts, is to investigate empirically if intellectual capital (IC) has an impact on the financial aspects of organisational performance as well as attempting to identify the IC components that may be the drivers for the leading financial indicators of listed companies. The study sought…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Corporations, Investment, Economic Climate
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Chan, Kin Hang – Learning Organization, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper, which is written in two parts, is to investigate empirically if intellectual capital (IC) has an impact on the financial aspects of organisational performance as well as attempting to identify the IC components that may be the drivers for the leading financial indicators of listed companies. The study sought…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Corporations, Investment, Economic Climate
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Godkin, Lynn; Allcorn, Seth – Learning Organization, 2009
Purpose: This article aims to present an alternative approach to diagnosing behavioral barriers to organizational learning. Design/methodology/approach: The paper juxtaposes interruptions in organizational learning with characteristics of narcissism and arrogant organization disorder. Psychoanalytically informed theory and DSM-IV criteria are…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Barriers, Behavior Theories, Organizational Climate
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Weldy, Teresa G. – Learning Organization, 2009
Purpose: This study aims to explore a relationship between the learning organization and transfer of training as strategies for learning and managing knowledge to make performance improvements and gain or maintain a competitive advantage. Design/methodology/approach: Various similarities are identified in the literature that are indicative of a…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Transfer of Training, Program Effectiveness, Organizational Development
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Elkin, Graham; Cone, Malcolm H.; Liao, Jianqiao – Learning Organization, 2009
Purpose: For 40 years, it has been widely believed in the West that learning organisations would be healthier, flexible and more competitive than other organisations. By now, one might expect them to be widespread. However, fully developed learning organisations are rare in the West. In contrast, Chinese organisations seem naturally to be learning…
Descriptors: World Views, Foreign Countries, Organizational Development, Educational Philosophy
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Gottschalk, Petter; Holgersson, Stefan; Karlsen, Jan Terje – Learning Organization, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize detectives in police investigations as knowledge workers. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on a literature review covering knowledge organizations, police organizations, police investigations, and detectives as knowledge workers. Findings: The paper finds that the changing role…
Descriptors: Careers, Investigations, Police, Knowledge Management
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Jamali, Dima; Sidani, Yusuf; Zouein, Charbel – Learning Organization, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to survey the various measurement instruments of the learning organization on offer, leading to the adoption of a tool that was considered most suitable for gauging progress towards the learning organization in two sectors of the Lebanese economy, namely banking and information technology (IT).…
Descriptors: Banking, Systems Approach, Measurement, Information Technology
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