Enterprise Learning Research Articles

Mechanisms and context in the San Patrignano drug recovery community, Italy: a qualitative study to inform transfer to Scotland

The San Patrignano drug recovery community, Italy, is regarded as one of the most successful in the world. However, if this model is to be transferred to other countries, it is necessary to clarify its underlying mechanisms and how far their success is context dependent. This qualitative study investigated these features of the San Patrignano model. Data collection included semi-structured interviews with six key stakeholders and 10 days’ observational field notes. Data were synthesised using frameworks and analysis was informed by realist principles. Individual level mechanisms include: commitment to change, removal from former social environment, communal living, peer mentor with lived experience and meaningful work. These operate in the context of a free of charge, long term (3–4 year) residential community. Organisational level mechanisms are: visionary leadership, staff dedication, social enterprise and adaptable learning. Organisational contextual factors include: a gap in suitable provision for drug recovery and the region’s high level of social capital. Articulating the programme theory of the recovery model and its contextual dependency helps clarify which elements should be transferred and how far they need to be adapted for different socio-cultural settings. The recognition of context is crucial when considering transfer of effective complex interventions across countries.

The relationship between organizational learning and innovation capabilities in medium-sized enterprises

This paper aims to analyse the relationship between organisational learning and innovation capabilities in medium-sized enterprises. The research applied two surveys in medium-sized enterprises. The results show the existence of a strong positive correlation between organisational learning and innovation capability. The study provides empirical evidence on the development of innovation capabilities in medium-sized enterprises. In the literature, there are relatively few papers, which study the links between organisational learning and innovation capabilities. Therefore, this paper contributes with tangible evidence to identify the dimensions of organisational learning that improve the development of innovation capabilities.

The relationship between organisational learning and innovation capabilities in medium-sized enterprises

The relationship between organisational learning and innovation capabilities in medium-sized enterprises

Innovations in Learning and Teaching in Academic Libraries: Alignment, Collaboration, and the Social Turn

Academic libraries are central to the learning, teaching and research enterprise of their institutions. As emphasised by Brophy (2005, p. 216) “Academic libraries are here to enable and enhance lea...

Teacher learning and the everyday digital

As mobile and connected digital practices reshape social, interpersonal and learning relationships, it is increasingly challenging for teachers and schools to keep pace with rapid change. This paper reports on a professional learning project which set out to support teachers to learn more about how students in their classes used technologies, which technologies they used, what they thought about how they and others used them, and what they used them for. Teachers’ research into students’ digital use acted as a necessary intervention and prior step to developing classroom- and school-level responses to young people’s use of digital technologies. The paper reports on teachers’ findings, their responses to what they learnt and the implications for schools. In parallel, it reports also on the processes of the research and its deliverables as a professional learning enterprise, and the operation and value of this approach as professional learning methodology.

Research on the Influence of Cluster Innovation on the Upgrading of Cluster Enterprises under the Background of “Internet +”—Take Zhejiang Pharmaceutical Chemicals Cluster for Example

With the introduction of the “Internet +” action, the upgrading of traditional industrial clusters has ushered in new opportunities and challenges. The enhancement of the cluster enterprise's innovation advantage can promote the upgrading, and the innovation advantage can be reflected in the enhancement of the enterprise's learning ability. This paper conducted a questionnaire survey on Zhejiang pharmaceutical chemicals cluster. Under the background of “Internet +”, the empirical analysis found that knowledge transformation ability and knowledge application ability have a positive impact on the cluster enterprises' upgrading. The knowledge acquisition ability can only promote the product upgrading of the cluster, and it has no effect on the process upgrading. Organizational philosophy and team support have a positive regulatory role in the relationship between cluster innovation and cluster enterprises' upgrading, while supervisor support has no significant impact.

Evaluation of Enterprise Learning Performance in the Process of Cooperation Innovation Using Heronian Mean Operator

In order to clarify the achievement and efficiency of enterprise learning in the process of cooperative innovation, a comprehensive criteria framework for the evaluation of enterprise learning performance is constructed taking the learning process and learning results as the construction idea based on organizational learning theory. And this paper proposes a novel dynamic evaluation method considering the interaction between attributes of learning performance. In this study, the criterion framework for the evaluation of enterprise learning performance in the process of cooperative innovation includes learning process performance and learning outcomes performance. The original matrices are given by managers and experts using fuzzy set theory, and a dynamic time sequence weight vector is calculated based on information entropy and time degree. The weight of learning performance attributes under different time series is calculated based on entropy measure method. The interactive information of learning performance attributes is integrated through the weight of learning performance attributes and the three‐parameter weighted Heronian mean operator considering the interaction between attributes. And then, the dynamic and comprehensive evaluation result of learning performance in the process of cooperative innovation could be computed by integrating the learning performance information under different time series with time sequence weight vector. Finally, a real case is studied to verify the scientificity and validity of the criteria framework for the evaluation of enterprise learning performance and the method proposed in this study. This study not only helps cooperative enterprises get feedback in time and adjust cooperative relationships and learning styles but also enriches the theory of interorganizational management and provides a theoretical basis for the process of enterprise cooperative innovation.

Introduction on Design of Enterprise University System Based on Functional Perspectives

This paper tries to explore the general ways and methods in designing enterprise universities system from the four functions of enterprise universities, strategic promotion, personnel training, knowledge management and resource integration, so as to provide more directions and paths for the future development of enterprise universities. Rapid development and rapid product iteration have become the current development status of all walks of life. In this context, the cultivation of talents has been paid more and more attention by business managers. Many enterprises begin to think about the significance of employee training and talent development. Enterprise universities, as important carriers of enterprise learning, focus on strategies and serve enterprises. Compared with traditional enterprise training in the past, they are more strategic, integrated and autonomous. Through their unique operation modes and more systematic ways of personnel training, they are favored by more and more Chinese enterprises.

Translation As A Learning Experience:, Insights From Cognitive Psychology And Psycho Pedagogy

Translation teaching is, often, envisioned solely as a problem of content or approach translating a strong desire to give a new breath to the discipline and help it gain its autonomy in order to be taught for its own sake and to be easily distinguished from a traditional language class. In the midst of this educational turmoil, consideration of the learning enterprise as such seems to be ignored. Future translators are learners who need to continue learn for the rest of their life. They need to develop their independence in thinking and decision. To help students in this respect, a teacher needs to gain insights about psycho-pedagogy and cognitive psychology to understand what learning is and how best it can be promoted and developed. This work is a discussion of the different threads of learning and how they can be manipulated in the service of the future autonomous translators.

Practice Enterprises – Key Enablers for the Development of Students’ Entrepreneurial Skills: An FSQCA Approach

Although active learning in practice enterprises is a well-known and widely used instructional method for entrepreneurial skills development, it remains a challenging issue to analyse how students immersed in practice enterprise learning journey developed their hard and soft skills and become interested in applying to startup funding programmes. In this study, a project-based storytelling approach is proposed to address two research propositions. Based on semi-structured interviews, the storytelling approach has been applied to a sample of 20 students involved in three practice enterprises from Faculty of Economics and Business Administration”, Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati. All of them had previous experience in dealing with practice enterprises challenges, during their studies at the Economic College “Virgil Madgearu” of Galati. FsQCA methodology was employed to assess the causal conditions that led to students’ success in entrepreneurial initiatives, built on their experiences with Simpract project (Transition from school to active life through internships and practice enterprises). The results show that the project-based active learning within practice enterprises enhanced the students’ hard and soft entrepreneurial skills

The influence of ERP simulation on enterprise system learning outcome

This study aims to examine how Enterprise Resurce Planning simulation (ERPsim) enhance the outcome of learning Enterprise Systems Course for accounting students. The sample of this study is undergraduate accounting students who have taken an Enterprise System course and ERPsim. The sample used in this study is 140 respondents selected using purposive sampling, The data analysis is conducted through Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The result of this research indicates that two factors determining the behavior for learning Enterprise systems course are enjoyment and cognitive appraisal. The result of this study provides evidence that behavior intention to use ERPsim is related positively to learning outcomes. Enjoyment is related positively to cognitive appraisal for using ERPsim. Enjoyment and cognitive appraisal have an important role in the effectiveness of using ERPsim in understanding business processes and enterprise system.

Knowledge transfer requirements for the management of social enterprises and organisations

The authors have extensively researched motivation and situated learning in social organisations and enterprises via qualitative processes. This was an original work in an under-researched area. The use of open interpretative phenomenological analysis allowed an in-depth study of over 30 individual’s motivations and processes. Their findings clearly demonstrate the role of, and need for, knowledge acquisition, restructuring and transfer into new and evolving NGO’s and similar not-for-profit ventures. Study of 10 very different organisations in two European countries revealed common mechanisms for gaining and utilising knowledge in new ways and for new applications. All were Communities of Practice (CoPs) with a well-defined purpose and rationale. Almost all those interviewed reported utilising their knowledge from earlier experiences, in new ways, and situations. This need for internal and external knowledge transfer was stressed by almost all participants, and how they solved it in their CoP forms a key outcome of the research.Keywords: Management, social enterprise, knowledge transfer.

International New Ventures Learning Processes and Their Role in International Marketing

Learning processes of the small and medium sized enterprises (SME) are of special importance for their internationalization, as they may lead to gaining the Learning Advantage of Newness. The current literature suggests that the dynamic capabilities concept may help in understanding how the learning processes lead to the development of marketing capabilities necessary for foreign expansion of SMEs. This study aims at identifying the learning processes of International New Ventures (INVs) and analysing their role in international marketing. The results of individual interviews with four Polish INV’s founders and managers are presented. The studied companies are similar to the foreign ones with respect to the information gathering sources and processes. When looking for market opportunities they often rely on informal sources of intelligence and „congenital” knowledge of the founders. These sources substitute for firm-level international experience at early stages of international development. At the later stages of expansion they are supplemented with more external knowledge and sometimes also “grafting”, or purchasing expert knowledge. Classification-JEL: Keywords: Enterprise learning processes; International New Ventures; International marketing

From school to work: Coherence between learning in school and learning in workplaces for apprentices in the Media graphics programme in Norway

A key challenge in vocational education and training (VET) programmes is the lack of coherence between the school-based and the enterprise-based parts of learning. This study explores the conditions that are important for the perception of coherence between learning in school and workplaces by interviewing apprentices enrolled in the Media graphics programme in Norway. In addition to the views of apprentices, the study also includes the perspectives of other participants in the vocational education system, such as media teachers and instructors in the workplaces and apprenticeship training office. The interview data revealed that the media education in school had facilitated the students’ learning primarily by allowing them to work on authentic media productions. Despite this, however, some of the apprentices experi-enced a lack of coherence between learning in school and learning in enterprises, mainly because there were few opportunities to specialise in their chosen vocation in school, and limited cooperation between schools and workplaces about placement periods.

Technological capabilities in the Indian Ayurveda medicine industry: Lessons for ‘industrialisation’ of alternative medicine in the post-WTO regime

This paper makes an attempt to explore technological change as well as the motivations and pattern of technological capabilities in the Indian Ayurveda medicine industry. It seeks to investigate the different kinds of learning and technological innovations taking place in the post-WTO regime in the industry to enable it to cater for the global market. The paper discusses assimilative capabilities, collaborative learning and path-dependence of the Ayurveda industry with the help of primary data collected from firms, research institutes, and individual scientists. Broadly, we find the pattern of technological capability acquisition and learning to vary with firm’s size, ownership pattern, educational background of owners and firm age. We find that the categories of technological capabilities are not watertight in nature, and a firm can fall in more than one category at times. Our findings also suggest that changing formulation technologies poses a new challenge for the delivery mechanism of Ayurveda drugs, calling for a greater interdependence between medical practice and production systems. It observes the formation of region specific clusters driving collaborative learning in small and medium-sized enterprises.

A Model For the Development οf Employees’ Learning (Career Path) in Industrial Enterprises

The goal of this study is to propose a model for the development of employees' learning (career path) in industrial enterprises. In the research a descriptive-survey method along with field research were used. The statistical population consists of all 110 employees of Dana Baspar's enterprises. A questionnaire with content verified by 30 experts along with the supervisor and the advisor was employed. Related validity of the questionnaires and their stability were 70%, counted by Cronbach's alpha, showing a good level of stability. Descriptive statistics for demographic data (frequency, standard deviation and mean) and inferential statistics were used. Research findings show that the influence of workshop and experimental skills gained by apprenticeship, the effect of training by holding meetings and seminars with experts or experience acquired during work is significant and positive on organizational productivity while the mediation variable of professional skills exists but the influence of classic and academic trainings is not positive and significant on organizational productivity considering the existence of mediation variables.

A Model For the Development οf Employees' Learning (Career Path) in Industrial Enterprises

A Model For the Development οf Employees' Learning (Career Path) in Industrial Enterprises

Exploring the antecedents of innovation performance: the roles of entrepreneurial orientation, learning orientation and organisational learning

This paper analyses the effect of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) on learning orientation (LO), the relationship between them and their effect on organisational learning (OL) and innovation performance (IP) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). A cross-sectional research design, drawing on a questionnaire survey, was employed to collect data from a sample of Iranian SMEs. The results obtained from structural equation modelling analyses revealed that EO positively affects the LO and OL levels in SMEs. In addition, OL was found to be a significant antecedent of innovation performance. These findings have important implications for academies, practitioners, and economic policy makers.

My.Eskwela: Designing An Enterprise Learning Management System to Increase Social Network and Reduce Cognitive Load

A typical learning management system (LMS) provides a tool for teachers to upload and create links to resources, create online assessments and provide immediate evaluation to students. As much as it tries to be student centered, most LMS remains a tool for instruction rather than learning. In a learning generation that is bound by very high online social capital, connectedness to the family weakens. my.Eskwela (My School) redefines LMS to include a parent component to address the need for inclusive participation of parents in the teaching-learning process. Basis for re-design came from the low user acceptance of teachers in using similar system. The study premised that designing an environment that evokes a ”feeling of socialness” through social widgets provides a perceived presence of a social environment that will increase usage of the system. In a majority of the focus group discussion, results showed a more positive evaluation of the system. Precisely, for perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived adoption and intent to use, it can be reasoned that the implementations for reducing the total effort to perform a task and the effect of implementing social interaction in the user-interface has high-impact.

Pengaruh Pembelajaran Kewirausahaan Terhadap Keterampilan dan Minat Wirausaha Pada Siswa

This study aims to (1) To determine the effect of Learning Entrepreneurship Against Skills And Interests Entrepreneurial Students (2) To determine whether there Effect of Learning Entrepreneurship Against Skills And Interests Entrepreneurial Students (3) To know the effect of Entrepreneurship Learning Skills And Interests Of Entrepreneurial Students. This research was ex-post facto. The research object is a class XI student with the number of samples taken as many as 20 people by random sampling technique. Data collection techniques used were questionnaires, observation, documentation. Data analysis technique used is the prerequisite test, statistical tests, and test hypotheses with a simple analysis and ujit t. From the T test results can be seen from the One-sample test, namely: testing of entrepreneurial learning variable (X) on entrepreneurial skills, from the calculation of t 34.33> 2,086 or sig (0.00 <0.05. Thus Ha accepted and Ho titolak. for entrepreneurial learning variable (X) of the entrepreneurial Interests (Y2), from the calculation of t 33.56> 2,086 or sig (0.00 <0.05. thus Ha Ho accepted and titolak. Based on data analysis concluded that there Effect Against Enterprise Learning Entrepreneurial Skills And Interests.