Organisational Change through Collaborative Learning in a Network Form

Group Decision and Negotiation - Tập 9 - Trang 129-147 - 2000
Sajda Qureshi1
1Department of Information and Decision Sciences, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Tóm tắt

In view of the changing nature of organisations, their structures and processes, managing organisational change is seen to be an ongoing challenge. In this paper, organisational learning is considered to be a potent force that drives organisational change. The use of an electronic group communication system supporting a distributed work process is explored in a network form of organisation. Following an analysis of the patterns of behaviour that occur within an evolving electronic social space, this paper concludes with a discussion of the implications for managing change through learning in a network form of organisation.

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