Abstract
The method through which organizations collect and internalize knowledge, termed organizational learning, has been theorized to significantly influence company performance. Specifically, the speed and accuracy of knowledge transfer boasted by organizational learning proponents is thought to assist companies in dealing with, and even benefiting from, environmental changes such as economic volatility. This research studied the organizational learning of fifteen commercial construction companies in the southwestern United States during the 2008-2009 U.S. recession through semi-structured interviews. It was found that the companies that exhibited dramatically higher or lower levels of organizational learning generally experienced correspondingly higher or lower performance. The contribution of these findings is to increase the understanding of organizational learning in the construction industry, demonstrate its practical applicability for company performance improvement, and outline potential means of employing organizational learning techniques in real-world scenarios
Recommended Citation
Danforth, Evan; Weidman, Justin; and Farnsworth, Clifton
(2016)
"Measuring Organizational Learning Success in Commercial Construction during Economic Recession,"
The Professional Constructor: Vol. 40:
No.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://open.clemson.edu/aic-journal/vol40/iss1/4
