Universities as Learning Organizations in a Cross-cultural Perspective

Objective: The paper attempts to link the concepts of Learning Organizations and Organizations culture with Universities within a cross-cutural perspective. Methods: After a review of literature of Learning Organizations, the author provides insight of Organizational culture definitions and attempts...

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Main Author: Jerome Dumetz
Format: article
Language:EN
RU
Published: North-West institute of management of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/f12f9fbaed154e419cd9db9d53e9c799
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Summary:Objective: The paper attempts to link the concepts of Learning Organizations and Organizations culture with Universities within a cross-cutural perspective. Methods: After a review of literature of Learning Organizations, the author provides insight of Organizational culture definitions and attempts to analyses the challenges of cross-cultural studies for those organizations. Results: The review showed that learning organizations have been successful in implanting change. Because each University has a unique profile an ad-hoc cross-cultural analysis is needed. Conclusions/Recommendations: The debate whether Universities are learning organizations is still open. Yet, in order to become accomplished learning organizations, they should take into account their cross-cultural challenges