Learning Organisations and Chinese and American Pragmatism: A Way ahead for the West

摘要：

In this paper we argue that Chinese pragmatism has much in common with the largely forgotten tradition of American pragmatism which needs to be recovered if the West is to cope well with the growing centrality of China in world economic and political affairs. We use the learning organisation as a vehicle to demonstrate this point of view. Much celebrated in the West,learning organisations have had little practical impact on Western organisations., In East Asia, as a result of Chinese pragmatism,learning organisations are a common and almost universal fact of everyday life in North East Asia ( but without the title). We suggest the possibility of re-engaging with the idea of learning organisations in concert with a pragmatic world view.

关键词： pragmatism self verification complexity experience aesthetic order logical order

作者: Malcolm H Cone Graham Elkin

作者单位: University of Otago, Department of Management PO Box 56 DN 9054 Dunedin, New Zealand University of Otago, Department of Management O Box 56 DN 9054 Dunedin, New Zealand

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 第六届管理学国际会议(Proceedings of ICM2007 the 6th International on Management)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 1829-1835

在线出版日期: 2007-08-03（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）