Sustaining innovation and change in government sector organizations: Examining the nature and significance of politics of organizational learning
Journal of Strategy and Management
ISSN: 1755-425X
Article publication date: 18 February 2019
Issue publication date: 18 February 2019
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to provide an examination of the processes involved in institutionalizing change in government organizations. Following the lens of organizational learning, the authors seek to delineate strategies for fashioning long-lasting change in government settings.
Design/methodology/approach
Drawing from a large body of literature in organizational studies and public administration, this paper presents arguments and propositions about how organizational politics can enhance learning in government. The paper integrates the concept of power into the organizational learning framework, taking the 4I learning framework as a point of departure.
Findings
The paper formulates insights into how specific power mechanisms can be combined to facilitate the development of flows of learning in government organizations that are in change management process, and concludes that government settings represent a good example of organizations where pathological patterns of learning will be preeminent.
Practical implications
The paper provides an extension to discussions of the political dynamics of organizational learning. In doing so, the paper highlights the importance of the often over-looked feedback process in organizational learning. It also brings to the fore the importance of strategic leadership in change management processes in government sector organizations.
Originality/value
The paper serves to add impetus to change management discourse in the public sector by presenting a framework for institutionalizing learning in government settings. The paper also sheds light on how different forms of power may be balanced at each stage of the learning process in order to enhance institutionalization.
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Acknowledgements
Expression of Concern: The Journal of Strategy and Management is issuing an expression of concern for the following article: Wahyono, W. and Hutahayan, B. (2020), Limba, R.S., Hutahayan, B., Solimun, S. and Fernandes, A. (2019), Sustaining innovation and change in government sector organizations: Examining the nature and significance of politics of organizational learning, Journal of Strategy and Management, Vol. 12 No. 1, pp. 103-115, to inform readers that concerns have been raised regarding the authorship of the paper and that the peer review process was compromised. To date, the authors have not responded to any requests for information, and an investigation is ongoing. Further information will be provided by JSMA as it becomes available.
Citation
Limba, R.S., Hutahayan, B., Solimun, S. and Fernandes, A. (2019), "Sustaining innovation and change in government sector organizations: Examining the nature and significance of politics of organizational learning", Journal of Strategy and Management, Vol. 12 No. 1, pp. 103-115. https://doi.org/10.1108/JSMA-10-2017-0075
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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