Learning Organization: a Fine Example of a Management Fad

• Autorzy: Slobodan Adžić
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The management theories of no practical value are known as management fads. One of those management fads - which is the focus of this research - is learning organization. There is sufficient evidence in English literature to conclude that learning organization is a management fad. The aim of this paper is to present the ample evidence that learning organization is a management fad. The maximum number of the research paper with the subject of learning organization was made in the late 1995 and the typical bellshaped curve of the management fad is evident. In contrast to the world trend, a content analysis of Serbian journals discovered that a typical pick of a bell-shaped curve of papers covering the topic of learning organization was 17 years later. It is argued in this paper that the learning organization phenomenon, as a normative or prescriptive theory, should be abandoned in the academic world altogether. The learning organization fad is a phenomenon with low practical applicability, a phenomenon of a little value for further development in the management research. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

PL

Zarządzanie; Organizacje uczące się; Teorie zarządzania

EN

Management; Learning organisations; Management theories

• Czasopismo: Business and Economic Horizons
• Rocznik: 2018
• Numer: vol. 14, iss. 3
• Strony: 477-487

Twórcy

autor

Slobodan Adžić

• Arab Open University, Kuwait

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DOI

10.15208/beh.2018.34