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OLKC 2024, Oslo, Norway (CANCELLED or POSTPONED)

(CANCELLED) OLKC 2023, June 14-16, 2023, Riga, Latvia
Conference Theme: Building for Innovation: Organisational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities in New Enterprises
(Host: TBD)

Conference Program TBD

OLKC 2022, September 7-9, 2022, University West, Trollhättan, Sweden
Conference Theme: Learning future workforce capabilities for global sustainability
(Host: University West, School of Business, Economics and IT, Division of Informatics)

Conference Tracks:
General conference theme track
Perspectives on collaboration for sustainable organisational learning
Collaborative approaches to work-integrated learning
Learning and organizing for digital transformation

Pre-conference Workshops: (Sep 7)
Doctoral Student’s Day

Keynotes: (tentative)
How the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics influence organizational knowing through processes of re-assessment and re-configuration
Sustaining and resonating knowledge: Integrating embodied, narrative, and abstract-symbolic representations at work

eOLKC 2021, 25-26 May 2021, Virtual venue
Conference Theme: Organizational Learning and Epistemic Ambiguity
(Host: Aalborg University, Institute of Learning and Philosophy)

Pre-conference Workshops: (May 24)
Doctoral Consortium

Sub-themes:
Interorganizational learning, its transition to organizational learning, and vice versa
Explorations of links between innovation and Learning Organizations and Organizational Learning (LO/OL)

Keynotes: 2 Keynotes (TBD)

(CANCELLED) OLKC 15, 23-24 April 2020, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark
Conference Theme: Bridging Organizational Learning – Collaboration and Co-Production in the 21st Century
(Host: Aalborg University, Institute of Learning and Philosophy)

Pre-conference Workshops (Apr 21-22): Doctoral Workshop/Days (Organizational Learning in a Changing World – Tomorrows’ Solutions for the Problems of Today)

Keynotes: 4 Keynotes (TBD)

General Track Sessions: TBD

Thematic Tracks: Sustainable Organizational Development; Crafting Sustainable Organizations Based on Action-oriented and Collaborative Approaches to Organizational Learning; Inter-organizational Learning: Where are We Now and Where are We Going?

Workshops: TBD

OLKC 14, 24-26 April 2019, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Conference Theme: The Human Side of Innovation – Understanding the Role of Interpersonal Relations in an Increasingly Digitised Workplace
(Host: University of Sussex Business School)

Pre-conference Workshops (Apr 24): Doctoral Consortium (Exploring Online Spaces using visual metaphors)

Keynotes: NO KEYNOTES

General Track Sessions: Institutions; Digital work; Organisational learning; Job design; Sustainability; Leadership; Epistemology; Linking industry and academia; Human focus; Healthcare; Human and Social Capital; Knowledge Management; Digital workplaces; SME’s; Action and Practice; Innovation in practice; Digital healthcare; Coordination; Digital cultures and inclusion;

Subtracks: Changes in era of digitalisation; Algorithms at work; Learnings from unintended and unexpected outcomes of innovation

Discussion Panels: How do organisational members cope when technology and humanity collide? (CANCELLED); The future of work in an increasingly digitised workplace: inertia, embracement or resistance

Professional Development Workshops: Management Learning: Journey to Publication; Strategic Communication: Teaching Leaders on Developing and Implementing Organizational Communication Campaigns

Unconference (Apr 25, 16-18h)

OLKC 13, 26-27 April, 2018, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: Learning to make a difference
(Host: University of Liverpool, School of Management)

Pre-conference Workshops (Apr 25): OLKC Doctoral Symposium/Day

Keynotes: Learning with Differences: Processes of Interorganizational Collaboration; Character Infused Organizational Learning

General Track Sessions: ´Capabilities; Communities of Practice/ION; Education; Human Resource Management; Innovation&ENT; Learning Theory; Academic Identity in Neo-liberal Times; WP_LEARN; DEVPAPER; PL_Papers

Symposia: Action Learning Symposium (by the International Action Learning Research and Practice (ALR&P) community); Senuous Learning Symposium (by the GNOSIS 2020 network); Power, Politics and Emotions in Organizational Knowing and Learning Symposium

Workshops: Growth Catalyst: Searning in Small Firms; Learning to Publish (IN IJMR); Learning to Make a Difference in Interagency Working between Criminal Justice and Welfare Systems

OLKC 12, 26-28 April, 2017, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain
Conference Theme: Inspirational Learning
(Host: University of Valladolid, Department of Business Organization and Marketing and Market Research)

Pre-conference Workshops (Apr 26): Doctoral Workshop; Teaching workshop: Enhancing and assessing critical thinking

Keynotes: Inspirational learning: Dimensions and Dynamics (keynote dialogue); Knowledge and functional stupidity

General Track Sessions: Human resource management; Learning and relationships; Learning capabilities; Leadership; Practice and learning practices; Projects; Innovation; Ambidexterity; Unlearning and teams; Social capital and knowledge sharing; Networks and strategy; Absorptive capacity and entrepreneurship; Knowledge management, Knowledge seeking and knowledge sharing; Inspirational learning; Collaboration, social systems and creativity; Ambidexterity and dynamic capabilities; Inspirational learning studies; Learning capabilities and new approaches to learning; Knowledge studies and social systems; Knowledge, knowing and belonging at work; Leadership and innovation

Symposia: Power, Politics and Emotions in Organizational Knowing and Learning: Identifying problems and mobilizing possibilities

Panels: Inspirational Learning (Scholar-Practitioner Panel)

Associated Events:
Organizational Stupidity (Talking About Organizations Podcast #32), Aug 2017

OLKC 11, 26-28 April, 2016, St. Andrews, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Conference Theme: Past, present and future – creativity and innovation for sustainability
(Host: University of St. Andrews, School of Management)

Pre-conference Workshops (Apr 26): Doctoral Workshop

Keynotes: 2 Keynotes

General Track Sessions: Liminality, Brokerage and Creativity; Experiencing Non-Organisation; Organisational and Dynamic capabilities; innovation; Creativity, Leadership and Future Approaches to Learning; Workspaces; Practice Based Studies; Sustainability; Innovation and Learning in Healthcare; Organisational Learning Frameworks; Inter-Organisational Learning; Organisational Crisis, Falure and Breakdowns, Non-Learning and Hindering Learning, Leader Behaviour, Character and Learning; Organisational Learning and Ambidexternity; Discourses of Becoming and Learning; Sustainable Organising

Symposia: Power, Emotions and Organizational Learning Symposium: Past Contributions, Present Ideas and Future Opportunities; Re-Innovation in the Public Sector Symposium; Action Learning: Questioning Relevance and Developing Impact Through Action Learning and Research Through Scholarly Practice

Associated Events:
On the Value of Conferences (Talking About Organizations Podcast #12), Jun 2016

OLKC 10, April 9-11, 2015, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy
Conference Theme: Authors in practice, practical authorship
(Host: )

Pre-conference Workshops (Apr 9): Doctoral Consortium; Teaching Workshop; Paper Development Workshop

Keynotes: Situated Authoring: How We’ve Moved On (keynote dialogue); One turn…and now another one. Do the turn to affect and the turn to practice have something in common?

General Track Sessions:

Symposia: Using Activity Theory: Experiences of Organizational Authorship; Authoring Epistemic Practices: How Inter/Professional Knowledge is Manufactured

Panels: Co-Production of Knowledge

OLKC 9, 22-24 April, 2014, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway
Conference Theme: Circuits of Knowledge
(Host: BI Norwegian Business School, Department of Leadership and Organizational Behaviour and Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship)

Pre-conference Workshops (Apr 22): Doctoral Consortium; Teaching workshop on “Facilitating the circulation of knowledge: From experience to reflection to theory, or the other way around”; Paper workshop on “Practice-based approached to learning and knowledge”

Keynotes: Circuits of Power/Knowledge; Leadership in Organizational Knowledge Creation

General Track Sessions: Knowledge Sharing and Integration; Knowledge Practices, Communities of Practice and Practice Based Studies; Change and Innovation; Organizational Learning and Reflexivity; Capabilities and Knowledge Creation; Knowledge, Power and Politics
Symposia: Knowledge Practices across and between Private Enterprises and Public Organisations

The World Café – Round table discussions

OLKC 8, 25-27 April 2013, George Washington University, Washington, USA
Conference Theme: Translation, Transition & Transmission
(Host: George Washington University, Graduate School of Education and Human Development)

Pre-conference Workshops (Apr 25): Doctoral Consortium; Teaching Workshop on “Managing Expectations – The Negotiation of Power Relations Within and Outside the Classroom”; Action Learning Workshop; Research workshop on “Trans-Discipline & Trans-National Research”

Keynotes: 1 Keynote

General Track Sessions: Organizational Change; Knowledge Management; Capabilities; Organizational Learning; Innovation; Identity and Learning; Knowledge Sharing; Social Learning, Learning, and Time; Knowledge and Professions; Knowledge Transfer; Dynamic Capabilities; Ambidexterity; Processes for Learning; Transmission and Coordination; Collective Learning and Reflection; Inter-Organizational Learning; Leadership and Change; Learning and Sensemaking;Knowledge Diffusion and Organizational Structures; Knowledge Practices; Learning Organizations; Crisis and Learning;

Symposia: Transitioning, Transmitting, and Translating Sensemaking: Bridging Scholar-Practitioner Insights (Karl Weick Symposium)

Panels: Translation, Transition & Transmission (Knowledge Management Panel)); Affective Learning and Valuing: Re-imagining the Dynamic Co-emergence of Conception/Perception or Cognition/Emotion (Affective Learning Dialogue); Reflections on the Future (Closing Panel)

OLKC 7, 2012, 25-27 April 2012, Valencia, Spain
Conference Theme: Shedding new lights on organisational learning, knowledge and capabilities
(Host: University of Valencia, Faculty of Economics)

Pre-conference Workshops (Apr 25): Doctoral Consortium; Teaching Workshop on “Shedding New Lights on Organisational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities – in our teaching practices”

Keynotes: From organizational learning to practice studies: Learning and unlearning in mastering a practice; Organizational Unlearning

General Track Sessions: Organizational Learning; Knowledge; Capabilities; Innovation; Organizational Learning and Knowledge; Practical Organizational Learning

Symposia: Organising Processes

OLKC 6, 12-14 April 2011, University of Hull, Hull, UK
Conference theme: Making Waves
(Host: University of Hull, Business School)

Pre-conference Workshops (Apr 12): Doctoral Consortium; Teaching Workshop on “Making Waves in the Classroom & Sharing and Reflecting on Our Teaching Practice”

Keynotes: Teaming: How the Learning Organization Works; Making Waves: ‘An Invitation to Learn to Dance Another Way’

General Track Sessions:

OLKC 5, 3-6 June 2010, Northeastern University, Boston, Boston, USA
Conference Theme: Learning to innovate; Innovating to learn
(Host: Northeastern University, College of Business Administration)

Pre-conference Workshops: Doctoral Consortium (Jun 3-4); Teaching Workshop on “Learning and Innovation in the Classroom” (Jun 3); Online Learning in Graduate Education (Jun 3)

Keynotes: 2 Keynotes

General Track Sessions: Research in Progress; Organizational Contributions to Activity Theory; Learning in Healthcare; Using Technology in Organizational Learning; Learning in Service Firms; Research & Practice & Management Programs; International Knowledge Management; Tools for Innovation; Management of Tacit Knowledge; Innovations in Project Management; Organizational Learning and Entrepreneurship; Cognitive Aspects of Organizational Learning; The Effects of Technological Change; An Institutional Theory Perspective to Knowledge Management; The Role of Technology in Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing and University-Industry Collaboration; Networks and Knowledge Integration; Inter-organizational and Inter-group Learning; Knowledge Development in Practice; Organizational Learning in Practice; Knowledge Management in Practice; Learning and Organizational Learning; Policy Implementation; Practice Based Knowledge Creativity; Organizational Learning and Performance; Shared Learning; Strategy and Learning; Perspectives on Knowledge Creation; Organizational Learning and Innovation

Symposia: Honoring Crossan, Lane, and White and the 4I Framework of Organizational Learning

Special Stream: Universalist, local and glocal perspectives on management learning (CANCELLED?)

Panels: Knowledge Management & Learning at World Bank (academic/practitioner panel)

OLKC 4, 26-28 April 2009, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Conference Theme: Connecting worlds
(Host: VU University Amsterdam, Knowledge, Information, and Networks Research Group)

Pre-conference Workshops (Apr 26): PhD Workshop: How to get published

Keynotes: Past, present and future directions in organizational learning and knowledge management research; Keynote 2

General Themes (Sessions): Connecting distributed knowledge (Distributed knowledge and virtual teams; Connecting research and industries; Connecting organizations 1: inter-organizational collaboration; Regional clusters; Networks and learning); Managing knowledge and innovation (Research and development; Absorptive capacity; Knowledge Management; Innovation; Knowledge management Concepts; Knowledge systems / Crossing boundaries; Communities of practice); Learning in and about organizations (Power issues; Organizational learning and HRM ; Organizational learning in health care chair: Sue Newell; Inter-organizational learning ; Workplace learning; Learning in situations); Capabilities in context (Developing capabilities; Cultural issues; Education; Web 2.0; Communication; Institutions and regulations)

Roundtables: Practice theories for organizations; Knowledge Management for development; Action Research

Panels: Expert Panel

OLKC 3, 28-30 April 2008, University of Aarhus, Copenhagen, Danmark
Conference Theme: The Many Senses of Organisational Learning and Knowing
(Host: University of Aarhus, Danish School of Education and Copenhagen Business School)

Pre-conference Workshops (Apr 27-28): PhD Workshop: How to get published

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OLKC 2, 14-17 June 2007, London, Ontario, Canada
Conference Theme: Learning Fusion
(Host: University of Western Ontario, Richard Ivey Scool of Business)

Pre-conference Workshops (Jun 13-14): PhD Workshop

Keynotes: 1 Keynote

Sessions: Capability; Emotions and Politics; Networks; Education; Multi-Level; SME; Time Scarcity; Practice; Individual; Boundaries; Creativity; Group; Knowledge Management; Measure & Method; Consultants; Institution; Knowledge Sharing; Paradox & Tensions; Policy & Practice; Knowledge Transfer

OLKC 1, 20-22 March 2006, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Conference Theme:
(Host: University of Warwick, Business School, IKON Research Centre)

Pre-conference Workshops (Mar 19-20): PhD Workshop: Writing and Publishing

Keynotes: Replicating organizational knowledge: From theory to practice; Trapped in the 20th Century? Why Models of OLKC Do Not Fit Bio-Pharmaceuticals (and What to Do About That); From stabilization knowledge to possibility knowledge in organizational learning

Tracks: …; Practitioner Track (organized by the Knowledge and Innovation Network)

6th OKLC European Conference 2005, 17-19 March, 2005, Cambridge (Boston), Massachusetts, USA
(Host: Bentley College, Department of Management)

Pre-Conference Workshops (Mar 17): PhD Workshop

Keynotes: Knowledge and Failures of Imagination; Material Knowing; Limits to community: Communities of Practice after 15 years on the beat

Conference Tracks: Academic Track; Practitioner Track

5th OKLC European Conference 2004, 2-3 April, 2004, Innsbruck, Austria
(Host: University of Innsbruck, Centre of Strategic Management & Leadership)

Pre-Conference Workshops (Apr 1): PhD Workshop (in collaboration with EDAMBA – European Doctoral Programmes Association in Management and Business Administration)

Keynotes: Managing the Five Learning Cycles of the Competent Organization; Siemens – Bringing the Global Network of Innovation to Life; Communities of Practice as Inter-Generation-al Relations

Conference Tracks: Academic Track (Managing Organizational Knowledge and Competence; Intangible Assets and Social, Intellectual and Cultural Capital; Knowledge Creation and Innovation; Communities of Practice, Knowledge Networks and Networking; Epistemology of Knowledge; Leadership and HRM in Knowledge-based Organizations); Practitioners’ Track

Panel Discussion

4th OKLC European Conference 2003, 13-15 April 2003, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain
(Host: University of Navarra, IESE Business School)

Keynotes: Molding Middle Ground – Intended Rationality and Theories of Learning; Knowledge Management Strategies in Use; UNION FENOSA Corporate University: Teach and Learn from Experience; Intellectual Capital: The Longitude of Wealth

Conference Tracks: Academic Track (Theorizing on Organizational Knowledge and Organizational Learning; Organisational Learning, Knowledge & Firm Strategy and Performance; Organizational Knowledge and Knowledge Management Practical Aspects (IT, Knowledge and Organizational Learning; Knowledge Creation and Construction; Organizational Learning Inhibitors; HR Management, Knowledge and OL; Capability Development and Potential; Teams and Learning; Knowledge and Organization Management); Knowledge and Learning across Boundaries (Organizational Learning Social Dimensions; Networks; Knowledge Transfer and Absorptive Capacity; Knowledge Across Borders; Knowledge Sharing); Organizational Learning, Knowledge, and Organization (Organizational Design, Knowledge and Organizational Learning; Organizational Change; Teams and Learning; Knowledge Measurements; Intellectual Capital); Practitioner Track (Knowledge Transfer Experiences; Collaborative Learning; Knowledge Management and Chief Knowledge Officers)

KMedu relevant:
Reflections of a Knowledge Officer

3rd OKLC European Conference 2002, 5-6 April 2002, Athens, Greece
(Host: Athens Laboratory of Business Administration)

Keynotes: Double-Loop Learning and Implementable Validity; The Knowledge-Based View of the Firm: A Review and Appraisal; Knowledge in Theories of Adaptation and Innovation: Operationalizing Knowledge in Evolutionary Economics; An Epistemological Perspective on Organizations and Innovation – How Can Organizations Afford Knowing?; Customer Relationship Management in a Networked World; Sustainable Development 2010: The Way Towards the Knowledge Society (Distinguished Guest Speaker)

Conference Tracks: Academic Track (Organisational Learning; Knowledge Creation and Organizational Innovation; Information Technologies and Knowledge Management; Knowledge Strategies, Organizational Competencies, and Competitive Advantage; Human Resources, Knowledge Work, and Knowledge Management; Acquiring, Sharing and Transferring Knowledge; Explorations of Organizational Knowledge; Practices of Managing Knowledge; Journal of Management Studies Doctoral Colloquium); Practitioners’ Tracks

Panel Discussions: Knowledge Management and Public Policy; Knowledge Management and the Management of Human Resources; Knowledge Management and Information Technologies; Higher Education in the Knowledge Economy

2nd Managing Knowledge Conference 2001, 10-11 April 2001, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Conference Theme: Managing Knowledge: Conversations and Critiques
(Host: University of Leicester, Management Centre)

Keynotes: Where does new organizational knowledge come from?; Managing knowledge in a worldwide organization; Moody Knowledge

Themed Sessions: Learning in Organizational Contexts; Deconstructing the Management of Knowledge; Knowledge stocks and flows; Representation of Knowledge; Managing knowledge across boundaries; Knowledge Communities; Knowledge, Innovation and Change; Researching the management of knowledge

Panel discussions: The new production of knowledge

BPRC Conference, 10-11 February, 2000, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Conference Theme: Knowledge Management: Concepts and Controversies
(Host: University of Warwick, Business Process Resource Center; Co-organizer: University of Leicester, Management Centre)

Keynotes: Cynefin: a sense of time and place the social ecology of knowledge management; Objects, Absences and the Social Construction of Knowledge

Themed Sessions: Knowledge Management in practice; Knowledge work; Complexity; Role of technology; Knowledge Management, innovation & change; Critical reflection; Organisational structure and memory; engineering perspective; Trust

6th International Conference on Organizational Learning and Knowledge (OLK 6), 9-11 June 2005, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Conference Theme: The Passion for Learning and Knowing
(Host: University of Trento, Department of Sociology and Social Research, Research Unit on Cognition Organizational Learning and Aesthetics)

Pre-conference Workshops (Jun 8): PhD Workshop/Seminar

Keynotes: Do not cross the passion line: the aesthetics translation of a performance; The collective repression of ‘pathos’ in the tradition of organization studies; Women’s ways of knowing: is it all about love?

Conference Themes: Social creation and destruction of knowledge; Knowledge management (passion or possession?); Multivoicedness of learning, development and knowing; Role of artifacts of knowing; Passion for measuring (and how to measure the passion); Tacit and aesthetic nature of knowing; Role of feelings and emotions in face-to-face and distant teaching and learning.

Art space: “heart” – Stefano Cagol presents the art installation prepared for the conference

5th International Conference on Organizational Learning and Knowledge (OLK 5), 30 May – 2 June 2003, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Conference Theme: Organisational Learning: ‘The Third Way’
(Host: Lancaster University, Management School, Management Learning Department)

Keynotes: 3 Plenary Talks

Conference Themes: Nature of Learning and Knowledge; Social Processes of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management; Learning Across Boundaries; Strategy, Competitiveness and Learning; Methodology

4th International Conference on Organizational Learning, June 1-4, 2001, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, June 2001
(Host: University of Western Ontario, Richard Ivey School of Business)
Conference Theme: Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management: New Directions

Keynotes: Opening Plenary; Final Plenary

Conference Themes: Theorizing about Knowledge and Learning; Group Knowledge and Learning; Experience, Memory and Learning; Organizational Learning and Change; Knowledge Transfer and Learning

Conference Sessions: Tacit/explict knowledge; Knowledge and learning in virtual environments; Learning, identity and change; Experience, sensemaking and learning: lessons from the field; Knowledge transfer and metaknowledge; Individual and organizational competencies; Knowledge transfer, technology and learning; Power and barriers to learning; Incidents and group learning; Organizational memory and forgetting; Work practice and learning; Simulating, modeling, and experimenting; Purpose and motivation in knowledge transfer; Change and learning – evidence from the field; Cultural barriers and learning; Group coordination and requisite variety; Learning and conflict; Theorizing about organisational learning and knowledge management

Round Tables: Theme 1; New Directions

3rd International Conference on Organizational Learning, 6-8 June 1999, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Conference Theme: —
(Host: Lancaster University, Management School, Management Learning Department)

Conference Streams: Organizational learning & strategy; Knowledge management & organizational learning; International & inter-organizational learning; Organizational learning & communities of practice; The politics & ethics of organizational learning; Organizational learning & learning organization interventions; Charting & measuring organizational learning; Teams & organizational learning; Miscellaneous

Academy of Management Midyear Conference, 22-23 March 1998, George Washington University, Ashburn, Virginia, USA
Conference Theme: Organizational Learning: Moving from Theory to Research
(Host: George Washington University, Institute for the Study of Learning and Executive Leadership Program)

Talks, discussion groups, and hands on simulations

Panel Dialogue: Theory Development, Epistemological and Research Paradigms, and Meaning and Measurement

Symposium on Organizational Learning and the Learning Organization, 1-3 September 1996, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Conference Theme: Theoretical Developments
(Host: Lancaster University, Management School, Management Learning Department)

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