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Organizations in the 21st Century:
Knowledge and Learning—the Basis for Growth

Nov. 16-17, 2001 at the Social Science Research Center (WZB), Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin

Summary 19

"Organizations in the 21st Century: Knowledge and Learning—the Basis for Growth" was held Nov. 16-17, 2001 at the Social Science Research Center (WZB) in Berlin, sponsored by the Gottlieb Daimler- and Karl Benz-Foundation.

Conference Summary

Table of Contents

Introduction

About the Event

What is Organizational Learning?

Between Three Worlds

Learning in the Private Sector

Learning in the Public Sector

Learning in the Academic Sector

Opportunities for Cross-Pollination?

Case in Point

Reconsidering the Variables

Diversity and Conflict

Learning with Power

Learning with Emotion

Learning Fashions

Learning from the past and Future

Architecture for Learning

Organizational Theater

About the Author

Conference rapporteur Steve Barth is an award-winning independent journalist based in Los Angeles and a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Learning Innovations Lab. He writes on knowledge management and cutting-edge business topics for the Harvard Management Update and other publications. He was formerly editor-at-large for Knowledge Management magazine and senior editor for World Trade.

Also Contributing to coverage of this conference were Kathrin Böhling, Tanja Busch, Christiane Kerlen and Sophie Muetzel.

Revised: 11/13/02. All contents copyright 2001 by Steve Barth, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), and individual authors. All rights reserved. For more information, please contact the Webmaster. Photographs by Peter Hinsel.