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Introduction Introduction
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The Distinctiveness of Small Business The Distinctiveness of Small Business
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Complexity of Small Business Learning Complexity of Small Business Learning
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Unpredictable Operating Environment Unpredictable Operating Environment
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Complex Small Firm Learning Task Complex Small Firm Learning Task
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The Concept of the Learning Organization The Concept of the Learning Organization
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A Working Definition A Working Definition
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Limited Utility in Small Business Context Limited Utility in Small Business Context
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Empirical Insight into Small Business Learning Empirical Insight into Small Business Learning
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Small Business as Learning Organization Small Business as Learning Organization
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Small Business as Open System Small Business as Open System
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Owner Manager as Pivotal Learning Node Owner Manager as Pivotal Learning Node
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Proficiency as “Man the Scientist” Proficiency as “Man the Scientist”
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Delegation Facilitating Learning and Control Delegation Facilitating Learning and Control
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Interlinking Relationships and Learning Nodes Interlinking Relationships and Learning Nodes
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Learning Subsumed in the Day-to-Day Learning Subsumed in the Day-to-Day
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Dialogical Learning Dialogical Learning
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High-Level Emotional Competencies High-Level Emotional Competencies
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Openness to Learn from Diverse Sources Openness to Learn from Diverse Sources
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Conclusions Conclusions
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References References
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24 The Potential to Nurture Small Businesses to Learning Organization Form
Get accessLondon College of International Business Studies
London College of International Business Studies
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Published:08 January 2020
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Abstract
In-depth consideration of the distinctiveness of small businesses vis-à-vis large companies and their often idiosyncratic approaches to learning reveals real potential for the nurturing of growth-seeking small enterprises to learning organization form. Highlighting that small enterprises are not “little big businesses,” the authors make explicit how understanding of their far-reaching qualitative as well as quantitative features and characteristics is key to effecting their sustained development. Through synthesis of perspective on distinctiveness, best practice small business learning insight, and wider thinking within the entrepreneurial small business learning literature the chapter demonstrates how many small enterprises do possess an embryonic infrastructure of an effective “business learning organization.” The authors produce a tentative conceptualization of the small business as learning organization for use as guiding frame of reference to facilitate the fostering of growth-seeking owner managed micro and small enterprises toward such organizational form.
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