Starkey, Tempest and McKinlay (2004) state in the introduction to their book, How Organizations Learn that: 'The learning organisation is a metaphor with its roots in the vision of and the search for a strategy to promote individual self-development within a continuously self-transforming organization'. Many theories have impacted on the way how organizations and individuals learn. Starkey, Tempest and McKinlay describes the process of learning organization as a metaphor, with its' roots in the vision and …showed first 75 words of 2489 total…

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