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Descriptive Lightweight Learning Organization Ontology

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New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies, Volume 1

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The learning organization provides a clear competitive advantage. However, the concept has conceptual and operational imprecision. This paper presents descriptive lightweight learning organization ontology in an attempt to create a shared understanding about the learning organization. The ontology identifies the core concepts and relations. Each concept and relation definitions are given and explained. The classes Entity and Level and the relations embeds_in and transcend_and_include are identified as central for the learning organization ontology.

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  1. Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Université Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne, 90 rue de Tolbiac, Paris, France

    Mijalce Santa & Selmin Nurcan

  2. Faculty of Economics – Skopje, Ss Cyril and Methodius University, Blvd Goce Delcev 9V, Skopje, Macedonia

    Mijalce Santa

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  1. Universidade de Coimbra & LIACC, Rio Tinto, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ana Maria Correia

  3. Department of Business Information Systems, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

    Felix . B Tan

  4. Empirica GmbH, Bonn, Germany

    Karl . A Stroetmann

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Santa, M., Nurcan, S. (2014). Descriptive Lightweight Learning Organization Ontology. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Tan, F., Stroetmann, K. (eds) New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies, Volume 1. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 275. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05951-8_18

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