Organizational Learning

Argyris, C., & Schon, D. A. (1978). Organizational Learning: A Theory of Action Perspective. Addison-Wesley.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Textbook

Year

1978

Link

https://archive.org/details/organizationalle0000argy

Cited from

biology_ecology, organizational_management, research_methods

Cited by

5 citations across 5 artifacts.

Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.

Primes

• Collective Systemic Learning
  • The essential commitment is that learning occurs at the system level, not merely at the level of individual members, and is embedded in processes, structures, documentation, and culture that make learning organizational rather than personal and transient

    This sourceIntroduces single-loop (error correction within existing strategy) vs. double-loop (questioning governing values/assumptions) learning and espoused-theory vs. theory-in-use.

• Inquiry-Change Learning Loop
  • The target may also move: the problem frame is itself revisable, and a pass whose main product is a better question has not failed.

    This sourceDistinguishes single-loop learning, which corrects error inside a fixed frame, from double-loop learning, which revises the governing variables themselves, so a pass whose product is a reframed problem counts as learning rather than failure.

• Metaplasticity
  • The language of priming, refractory periods, and saturation has been borrowed by organizational-change literatures, where double-loop learning is essentially metaplastic — change in the change rules.

    This sourceIntroduces double-loop learning—change in the governing rules of change—the organizational analogue of metaplasticity.

Domain-specific

• Organizational Metacognition
  • Argyris and Schön used deutero-learning for inquiry into previous organizational learning contexts and the invention and evaluation of new learning strategies.

Mechanisms

• Improvisation Learning Harvest
  • Because it revises the governing repertoire and grammar rather than just fixing the single incident, it is a form of double-loop learning.

    This sourceDefines double-loop learning as revising governing norms and assumptions rather than only correcting errors within them.

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