Organizational Learning as a Social Process: A Social Capital and Network Approach

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Author(s): Jieun You (Yonsei University, South Korea), Junghwan Kim (University of Oklahoma, USA)and Sarah M. Miller (University of Oklahoma, USA)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 24
Source title: Handbook of Research on Human Factors in Contemporary Workforce Development
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Bryan Christiansen (PryMarke LLC, USA)and Harish C. Chandan (Argosy University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2568-4.ch006

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Human Aspects of Business / Psychology / Social Sciences & Humanities

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This chapter discusses about application of social capital and network approach to organizational learning research and practice. The shift of organizational learning perspective from a technical or system-structural perspective to a social or interpretative perspective highlights that organizational learning process is socially embedded and is based on social interaction/relationships. Social capital and network theories provides a conceptual framework to explain how organizational learning takes place as well as identifies social and network factors influencing organizational learning. Thus, the chapter provides implications for establishing a conceptual and methodological framework to describe and evaluate an organizational learning process by extensively reviewing the recent organizational learning research adopting social capital and network approach.

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