Organizational Learning in Project‐Based Companies: A Process Thinking Approach |
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Authors: | Kaj U. Koskinen |
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Affiliation: | Department of Industrial Management and Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Pori, Finland |
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Abstract: | Although a traditional project model is clearly useful for laying out the patterns of relationships surrounding a project, it does not provide the temporally embedded accounts that enable us to understand how organizational learning takes place. The process thinking perspective offers a means to solving this problem. This article provides an analysis of how different processes interact dynamically in order to benefit project‐based companies' organizational learning. Two findings from this study are: (1) organizational learning is a dynamic concept that emphasizes the continually changing nature of a project‐based company and (2) sensemaking and negotiation of meaning are ongoing processes in project‐based companies. |
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Keywords: | project‐based company process thinking organizational learning sensemaking negotiation of meaning interaction planning recursivity |
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