Toward Digital Kill or Renaissance - What’s Next for Organizational Learning Theories?

Description

Digital environments open up new ways of knowing (Argote et al., 2021; Bailey, 2022; Faraj and Leonardi, 2022). Digital artifacts proliferate, algorithms automate and accelerate learning (Lyytinen et al., 2021). This PDW engages participants to reflect on the challenges that digital environments pose on organizational learning. Theories such as the Community of Practice model (Lave and Wenger, 1991; Nicolini et al., 2022), the Behavioral Learning Model (March 1991), and the Information Seeking and Helping model (Bailey and Barley, 2011; Constant et al., 1996; Cross and Sproull, 2004; Kellogg, 2021) premise learning as being predominantly experiential, balancing exploitation and exploration, and requiring vetting by organizational hierarchy or community. Is there a misfit between new and old ways of knowing in terms of our understanding of organizational learning? The PDW brings together experts and participants from different disciplines of management to debate two stands: Digital Kill, or advanced digital environments are killing organizational learning and much of intelligent organizational action, and Digital Renaissance, or advanced digital environments are opening new, different, and in many cases superior ways of organizational learning and intelligent action. Within these stands, the expert panel and the roundtables will discuss and develop a research agenda on organizational learning and its theorizing in digital environments.

Period	25 Jul 2025
Held at	Academy of Management, United States, New York
Degree of Recognition	International