Organizational learning
process of creating, retaining, and transferring knowledge within an organization
Organizational learning is the process of creating, retaining, and transferring knowledge within an organization. An organization improves over time as it gains experience. From this experience, it is able to create knowledge. This knowledge is broad, covering any topic that could better an organization. Examples may include ways to increase production efficiency or to develop beneficial investor relations. Knowledge is created at four different units: individual, group, organizational, and inter organizational.
The most common way to measure organizational learning is a learning curve. Learning curves are a relationship showing how as an organization produces more of a product or service, it increases its productivity, efficiency, reliability and/or quality of production with diminishing returns. Learning curves vary due to organizational learning rates. Organizational learning rates are affected by individual proficiency, improvements in an organization's technology, and improvements in the structures, routines and methods of coordination.
The public source identifies “Organizational learning” as process of creating, retaining, and transferring knowledge within an organization. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Organizational, learning and process.
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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1430172. The Library of Congress control number is sh95006000. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.
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