"Management books talk about learning organizations," said one American intelligence official.

Modeling for learning organizations.

He also spent a summer in 1987 at Stanford Business school to learn about successful organizations.

Tiimiakatemia's teampreneurship has been influenced by ideas and theories on learning organizations, self-managed learning, leadership and team building practices (mainly from USA) and socioconstructivism.

Going beyond total quality: The characteristics, techniques, and measures of learning organizations.

Organizations do not organically develop into learning organizations; there are factors prompting their change.

Therefore, learning organizations tend to have flat, decentralized organizational structures.

It is certainly difficult to find real-life examples of learning organizations (Kerka 1995).

These types of cultural norms are consistent with (and supportive of) the objectives behind empowerment, total quality management, transformational leadership, continuous improvement, re-engineering, and learning organizations.

Through this program, prospective volunteers can learn about different organizations and specific time commitments that the groups need as well as the types of jobs that have to be done.