Editorial

摘要

Welcome to Volume 15, Issue 4. On the surface there are four quite different papers to be found here, although they are all linked by the passion with which their authors wish to argue their cases. There are, however, other links. The paper "Organizational learning and the learning organization: reviewing evolution for prospecting the future" by Teresa Rebelo and Adelino Gomes, is looking firmly to the future, seeking guidelines for future learning organisation development. Their use of the Reichers and Schneider (1990) model of the evolution of concepts provides an interesting way of determining where the learning organisation has got to in terms of research development. Their findings argue that, "to overcome the criticism and consolidate the concepts, a substantial investment in cumulative empirical research into topics that involve or are influenced by organizational learning is essential, as well as an effort to clarity some questions that are still confused in the literature, such as the 'who learns' and 'how organizations learn' questions". It can be argued that the other three papers in the issue are part of a move towards development of such empirical research.