The Learning Organization is an international journal devoted to learning organizations and all the factors and outcomes that contribute to them, such as individual, team, and organizational learning, learning disciplines, organizational ambidexterity, knowledge management, learning culture, organization, leadership, human resource management, etc., in for-profit and non-profit organizations. It is the only journal devoted exclusively to promoting ongoing debate, discussion, and analysis about learning and knowledge creation at all levels and in all contexts. The debate stimulated by the journal is intended to identify new opportunities and perspectives in this dynamic area of research and to stimulate further progress. Authors are asked to follow the guidelines for authors when submitting papers to The Learning Organization journal.
Aims and scope
The goal of The Learning Organization journal is to contribute to high-quality, theoretically sound, and evidence-based research focused on learning organisations and their intended outcomes, especially organisational learning, in both for-profit and non-profit organisations. The journal provides a platform for sharing new insights and identifying current challenges in the field of learning organisations and organisational learning. Readers are kept abreast of new thinking, trends, challenges, and developments in the field of learning organisations and organisational learning.

The journal welcomes conceptual contributions that propose new relationships and develop hypotheses among elements related to learning organisations and organisational learning; empirical research based on quantitative and qualitative research methods that tests data; literature reviews that critically analyse previous theoretical and empirical findings; case studies that describe actions or interventions in organisations related to learning and knowledge management; and viewpoints in which authors discuss specific issues and challenges and express their personal opinions. The Learning Organization also publishes book reviews and implications for practitioners that summarise academic debates for practitioners to show them that academic work has practical value.

Authors are strongly encouraged to follow the author guidelines before submitting their work to TLO. Research papers should make a strong theoretical contribution to the field of learning organisations and organisational learning. Authors should ensure that their work:

Falls within the journal’s topic area
Contains an informative and clearly structured abstract
Provides a strong theoretical background
Includes a clear explanation of the research context, sample, and methodology
Contains a clear analysis, presentation, and interpretation of the results
Identifies the contribution to theory
States the limitations of the research and the implications of the findings
Follows the APA 7 referencing style.
Coverage includes, but is not limited to:

Individual learning, team learning, learning disciplines
Action learning, experiential learning, vicarious learning, transformational learning, entrepreneurial learning
Learning-forgetting-unlearning-relearning dynamics
Learning orientation as a business orientation
Learning organisations from a systems perspective
Learning organisations as agile and adaptive systems
Learning alliances and ecosystems
Organisational learning as a contribution to organisational development and transformation
Measuring learning organisations and organisational learning
Organisational learning outcomes related to innovation and organisational transformation and development
Organisational learning and business growth
Resource allocation capabilities in learning organisations
Barriers to learning organisations/organisational learning
Factors contributing to learning organisations/organisational learning
Learning organisations and organisational learning in different industries, sectors, and contexts
Learning organisations and the value creation process
Human resource management in learning organisations
Leadership, learning culture and climate, and social capital in learning organisations
Distribution of power in learning organisations
Knowledge management in learning organisations
Learning and knowledge boundary crossing
Learning organisations and partnership management
Inclusion, equality and diversity in learning organisations
Emotional capital in learning organisations
Crisis management and learning organisations
Conflict management in learning organisations
Cultural differences in the development of learning organisations
Learning organisations as authentic organisations
Learning organisation and spiritual practices
Sustainability and viability of learning organisations
Stakeholder approach and learning organisations
Performance of learning organisations from the perspective of ethics and social responsibility
Management information and decision-making systems and their impact on organisational learning
Learning organisations in the fourth industrial revolution
Interdisciplinary research related to learning organisations and organisational learning
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