Learning organization: a fine example of a management fad

Abstract

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.

A structured literature review of scientometric research of the knowledge management discipline: a 2021 update

“…Examples of popular and growing research streams include communities of practice (Bolisani and Scarso, 2014), the consequences of knowledge spillover, loss and leakage (Ferenhof, 2016), knowledge-based urban development (Edvardsson et al, 2016), KM success factors (Fteimi and Lehner, 2018), public sector KM (Jussila et al, 2017), KM in project management (Cabral et al, 2014;Handzic and Durmic, 2015;Sareminia et al, 2016), adoption, use and diffusion of KM systems (Matayong and Mahmood, 2013), process capital (Matthies, 2014), social media for knowledge sharing (Sarka and Ipsen, 2017), the role of KM in innovation (Leon and Bolisani, 2016) and the intersection of KM and IT (Iskandar et al, 2017;Khan and Vorley, 2017;Usai et al, 2018). KM also includes knowledge-based development (Akude and Grunewald, 2014) and organizational learning (Song et al, 2014;Adz ˇi c, 2018;Castaneda et al, 2018) research streams, and it is closely connected to IC topics (Pereira and Machado, 2019). At the same time, there are several underrepresented or poorly understood KM themes: outsourcing of knowledge processes (Edvardsson and Durst, 2014), knowledge waste (Ferenhof et al, 2015), the role of an individual (Rechberg and Syed, 2012;Rechberg and Syed, 2014a;Rechberg and Syed, 2014b), business outcomes of KM (e.g.…”

El laberinto de las modas gerenciales: ¿ventaja trivial o cambio forzado en empresas disruptivas?

“…Aunque para algunos el uso de los conceptos de «management fashions» o «management fads» son de uso indistinto (Gibson & Tesone, 2001), o consideran que ambos términos no pretenden ser peyorativos, por cuanto afectan positiva o negativamente por igual a las organizaciones (Cook & Zhang, 2019); otros autores ven que se trata de procesos sociales diferentes (Adzic, 2018). Desde esta perspectiva se habla de «management fashions» cuando las fuerzas de la oferta y la demanda interactúan en un mercado de conocimiento; y de «management fads» cuando el fenómeno no es causado, sino que ha surgido espontáneamente o de forma accidental sin intervención de las fuerzas del mercado, y por ello con poco impacto, con menor duración con posibles efectos contrarios o contraproducentes a lo esperado en cuanto a las técnicas de gestión de las organizaciones.…”

“…Los «management fashions» son conceptos de gestión que ascienden a cuotas relativamente grandes de mercado, y los «management fads» son de más corto plazo y fluctúan en torno a los de largo plazo. (Adzic, 2018) En este sentido, para Guthey et al (2021) el concepto de moda es un constructo sociológico que describe procesos colectivos, discursivos e industriales cuya repercusión sobrepasa los gustos cambiantes o las esferas estéticas. En el caso de las gerenciales, refleja la relación entre el Gráfico 7: Co-ocurrencia de las categorías claves en Diagrama de Sankey sobe el propósito investigativo.…”

Studies with Dimensions of Learning Organization Questionnaire – Research Study

“…Over the years, studies have been launched using DLOQ especially since 2011. The maximum number of studies focused on learning organizations in general can be seen in 1995 [4].…”