Managing Learning Enterprises

Natasa Rupcic is a full professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Rijeka. She is the Editor-in-Chief of The Learning Organization Journal, published by Emerald, and a member of the editorial board of the Central European Business Review and the International Journal of Contemporary Management. She has authored several books and numerous scientific papers.

Part 1: Characteristics of a Learning Enterprise.- 1. Managing human capital and learning - a key challenge of modern management.- 2. A modern enterprise as a learning organization.- 3 Learning disciplines of the learning organization.- 4. Management of a learning enterprise.- 5. Knowledge management - a modern core competence.- 6. Stakeholder orientation - the foundation of a learning enterprise.- Part 2: Challenges of Implementing a Learning Enterprise.- 7. Challenges of individual learning.- 8. Challenges of team learning.- 9. Challenges of organizational learning.- 10. Challenges of change: from adaptation to organizational transformation.- 11. Interorganizational learning and knowledge transfer.- 12. Learning - forgetting - unlearning - relearning: The learning dynamics of a learning organization.- 13. Intergenerational learning and knowledge transfer.- Part 3: Possibilities of Implementing the Concept of a Learning Organization and Enterprise.- 14. The learning organization as a technology for introducing the socio-economic paradigm and solving the so-called "wicked" problems.- 15. Possibilities of implementing the learning organization ideas with regard to cultural specificities.- 16. Complementarity of religious indoctrinations and spiritual practices and learning organizations.- 17. Critical review of the concept of the learning organization and the learning enterprise.- 18. A true learning organization - an organization of the people committed to spirituality.