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Establishing a Learning Culture: The Importance of Relationships within an Organization

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Information Systems, E-learning, and Knowledge Management Research (WSKS 2011)

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Organizational learning is a relational concept and a social construct, intrinsically bound to the environment, involving interaction among individuals or between individuals and organizations. A learning culture can be represented as a range of complex relationships such as person-to-person relationships. Learning, to be productive within organizations, needs to be captured, realized, transformed and re-used. This requires relationships within an organization that support all types of learning at across the organization. This paper argues that a learning culture is a set of relationships and behaviors within an organization that transform tacit into explicit knowledge.

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  1. Faculty of Education, University of Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia

    Francesco Sofo

  2. Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems, University of Calabria, via P. Bucci, 42\C, 87036, Rende, CS, Italy

    Salvatore Ammirato

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  1. The American College of Greece, Agia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece

    Miltiadis D. Lytras

  2. Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

    Da Ruan

  3. College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Robert D. Tennyson

  4. University of Oviedo, Oviedo-Asturias, Spain

    Patricia Ordonez De Pablos

  5. Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

    Francisco José García Peñalvo

  6. Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Kista, Sweden

    Lazar Rusu

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Sofo, F., Ammirato, S. (2013). Establishing a Learning Culture: The Importance of Relationships within an Organization. In: Lytras, M.D., Ruan, D., Tennyson, R.D., Ordonez De Pablos, P., García Peñalvo, F.J., Rusu, L. (eds) Information Systems, E-learning, and Knowledge Management Research. WSKS 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 278. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35879-1_32

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