Wednesday 25th April, Conference Welcome Event
18.30 - 21.00, Liverpool World Museum
Chance to view the Terracota Warriors
Thursday 26th April
8.00 - 9.00: REGISTRATION AT HILTON
9.00 - 10.30: GRACE SUITE
Welcome to Liverpool: Prof Julia Balogun, Dean ULMS
Opening Plenary – Prof Hans Berends: LEARNING WITH DIFFERENCES: PROCESSES OF INTERORGANIZATIONAL COLLABORATION
10:30 - 11:00: Tea and coffee
11:00 - 12:30:
AL_SYM 1:Chair,Clare Rigg. ROOM – GRACE 1
Action Learning symposium welcome, introductions, agenda-setting
CAPABILITIES 01 – MEETING ROOM 7 Chair: Neil Turner
Eva Gatarik, Rainer Born, Peter Kelemen (107)
How to earn the “Order of Maria Theresia”. Behavioural patterns and skills for coping with the unexpected
Ane Isabel Linden, Claudia Cristina Bitencourt, Hugo Muller Neto (112)
The contribution of Knowing in Practice to Dynamic Capabilities in healthcare organizations: starting from the practice
Alan John Brown, Jennifer Bimrose (117)
Facilitating learning, development and professional identify transformation of Public Employment Services staff through on-line collaborative learning
COP/ION 01 – MEETING ROOM 3 Chair: Beatriz Ortiz
Kate Victoria Morland, Dermot Breslin, Fionn Stevenson (125)
Building better homes: Developing a multi-level learning framework for UK house builders
Dagmara Weckowska (139)
Strategic change in the making: on the interplay of learning and strategising
Amy Zidulka (122)
Practice Theory as a Response to CoP Theory’s Limitations: An Empirical Exploration
DEVPAPER 01 – MEETING ROOM 4 Chair: Jill Shepherd
Isabelle Yi Ren, Jean M. Bartunek (118)
Translating Knowledge across Boundaries: From Scholarly Knowledge to Management Insights
Vicky Ward (113)
Facilitating knowledge sharing within inter-professional healthcare teams: the value of ‘questions without answers’
Mona Ali Al Hefdhi, Mahnaz Abbariki (145)
Disruptive Organizing and Dynamic Learning Capability: Transforming the Saudi Economy
Sufian Fannoun and John Kerins
Eliciting and Analysing Knowledge in a Small Software Development Unit and Proposing a Lightweight System to Support Organisational Learning
EDUCATION 01 – MEETING ROOM 5 Chair: Barbara Mueller
Jan Green (134)
The Basic Social Process of Perceptive Familiarizing: Making a Difference with Scenario Assessment in Executive Education
Stine Bylin Bundgaard, Nikolaj Stegeager (160)
Organizational Change in Continuing Education -A case study of action research as a pedagogical strategy within continuing education
Sylvia Schweiger, Barbara Mueller, Wolfgang Guettel (188)
From leadership training to leader identity development
HRM 01 – MEETING ROOM 6 Chair: Georgina Lack
Andrés Salas-Vallina, Joaquin Alegre(128)
Constructive dissensus, organizational virtuousness and happiness at work (HAW) in banking services: a multilevel approach
Frank Schirmer, Michael Gühne, Silke Geithner (140)
Learning in the context of institutionalized reflexivity – Using the example of the existence of demographically adequate HRM tools –
Mario Javier Donate Manzanares, Emilio Ruiz Monterrubio, Jesus David Sanchez de Pablo González del Campo, Isidro Peña Carcía-Pardo (158)
Total Quality Management and Human Resource Practices for Social Capital Development: Effects on Company Innovation Capabilities
INNO&ENT 01 – MEETING ROOM 2 Chair: Ossie Jones
Joaquín Alegre Vidal, Iris Maria Velez Osorio (108)
The Innovation Strategy and Organizational Learning: The Manufacturing Sector in Colombia
Andrew Greenman, Jeannie Holstein (133)
Preparing Entrepreneurs for Growth using Dialogic Space within Business Schools
Lamia Salah Emam, Ossie Jones(136)
Social Entrepreneuring: A Case of the Learning Process
LEARN_THEORY 01 – MEETING ROOM 1 Chair: Ali Rostron
Marco Marabelli, Sue Newell, Bob Galliers (135)
The Role of Materiality in the Strategic Use of Social Media for Impression Management Purposes
Dermot O'Reilly, Mark Westcombe (156)
Meso-level dynamics and dimensions of organizational learning and change
Katharina Sell (224)
Igniting the Senses in Navigating Complexity: An Embodied Approach to Organizational Learning
SENSL 01 Session Chair: Elena Antonacopoulou and Steve Taylor – GRACE 3
Elena Antonacopoulou and Steve Taylor
Plenary: What is Sensuous Learning and Why it matters?
WP_LEARN 01 – GRACE SUITE BO ROOM Chair: Soila Lemmetty
Annika Engström, Nikolas Käkelä (147)
Learning to Make a Difference in Customization Settings
Tsuneki Mukahi (151)
The Effect of Contingencies of Self-Worth on Self-Esteem and Knowledge-Sharing Behavior in Organizations
Alexander Engelmann, Barbara Kump, Christina Schweiger (157)
Components of the Dominant Logic: A systematic literature review
12.30 to 13.30 – LUNCH AND NETWORKING
12.30 to 13.30 BOARDROOM
OLKC Board Meeting
THURSDAY 26th April 13.30 to 15.00
AL_SYM 02a: Chair, Clare Rigg – GRACE 1
Chandana Sanyal
A Mindful Coach: The impact of mindfulness practice on the mind-set and belief system of the action learning coach
Clare Rigg, David Coghlan, Paul Coughlan, Denise O'Leary
Action Learning in Networks
David Higgins, Barbara Wilczek-Stronczek
Paper No. XX – Silent Voices and arresting moments …………….in action.
AL_SYM 02b: Chair, Mike Pedler – GRACE 2
Does Action Learning need to change?
CAPABILITIES 02 - MEETING ROOM 7 Chair: Ane Isabel Linden
Stephanie Duchek, Silke Geithner, Tatjana Kalwa (121)
How to learn resilience – a play-oriented approach to foster team resilience capabilities
Tulin Dzhengiz, Eva Niesten (126)
The Role of Absorptive Capacity in the Development of Environmentally Friendly Organizational Capabilities and Individual Competences: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Neil Turner, Elmar Kutsch, Harvey Maylor, Juani Swart (131)
Towards an understanding of ‘dynamic ambidexterity’ in supporting managerial resilience.
COP/ION 02 - MEETING ROOM 3 Chair: Amy Zidulka
Ila Bharatan, Jacky Swan, Eivor Oborn (161)
Navigating Turbulent Waters: Negotiating Access to Participation in the Practices of Seafaring
Beatriz Ortiz, Mario J. Donate, Fátima Guadamillas (210)
Knowledge Acquisition from Inter-Organizational Cooperation Partners: The Mediating Role of Absorptive Capacity
Cinla Akinci, Allan Macpherson(215)
Inter-organizational Learning in a Strategic Partnership: A Case Study of Two UK County Police Forces
DEVPAPER 02 - MEETING ROOM 4 Chair: Vicky Ward
Jill Shepherd, Tim Artus (159)
Organisational threshold concepts in degree apprenticeships; challenges and variations
Aare Värk (166)
Emergent practices of knowledge management in a small industrial design company
Mike Phillips (170)
Evaluating the impact of Degree Apprenticeships – Theory or Practitioner?
EDUCATION 02 - MEETING ROOM 5 Chair: Jan Green
Lone Hersted, Søren Frimann (192)
Working with Organizational Learning from a Communication Perspective
Allen Higgins (239)
Performance in Teaching IS: Enacting IS practice through problem-based learning
Guy Huber (173)
Internationalizing the Curriculum: Care and Global Citizenship in the Business School
HRM 02 - MEETING ROOM 6 Chair: Frank Schirmer
Andrés Salas-Vallina, Cristina Simone, Rafael Fernandez-Guerrero(149)
HRM soft practices, happiness at work (HAW) and absorptive capacity: theoretical and empirical advances In the HRM Black box
Georgina Lack, Juani Swart (163)
Unlearning-in-Action: Russian Dolls or empty boxes
Atif Hassan (129)
Analysis of Trust as Essence of Transformational Leadership: Impact on Work Engagement and Organization Citizenship Behavior
INNO&ENT 02 - MEETING ROOM 2 Chair: Andrew Greenman
Ana-Paula Fonseca (254)
Action Research in the Small Business and Stakeholders context: from Corporate Social Responsibility Perspective
Hannele {T. E.} Kerosuo, Tarja Mäki, Anssi Koskenvesa (191)
Tracing pathways of implementing new working methods in construction industry
Benito Giordano, Ossie Jones
Entrepreneurial learning during early stage growth: the role of business models
PPE SYMPOSIUM 01 – BOARDROOM Chair: Bjørn Erik Mørk
Keith Herbert Peavy, Thomas Hoholm, Bjørn Erik Mørk, Per Ingvar Olsen
Emerging solidarities and the transformation of practices and power relations
Betina Riis Asplin
User representations and power relations in service innovation.
SENSL_SYM 02, Session Chair: Elena Antonacopoulou – GRACE 3
Lotte Darsø, Gry Worre Hallberg
Using Performance to Foster Inherent ‘Poetic Potential’ in Schools in Nordic Countries.
Isabella Sacramento, Frode Heldal and R Carielo
Using Body Sounds as a Coaching tool to Promote Individual Growth in Brazil
15.00 to 15.30 TEA/COFFE
15.30 to 17.00
AL_SYM 03a: Chair, Cheryl Brook – GRACE 1
Sue Smith, Laurie Smith
Supporting Innovation and Enterprise in Higher Education through Intra-Organizational Action Learning
Cheryl Brook, Tom Bourner, Asher Rospigliosi
Origins of the Ethos of Action Learning
Yonjoo Cho, Hyeon-Cheol Bong, Hyeong-Sook Kim
An Historical Analysis of Action Learning in South Korea
AL_SYM 03b: Chair, Kath Aspinwal – GRACE 2
The Action Learning Organisation: An Account of Practice
CAPABILITIES 03 - MEETING ROOM 7 Chair: Stephanie Duchek
Maria Gil-Marques, Maria Moreno-Luzon, Andres Salas-Vallina (132)
From individual to team ambidexterity: the mediating role of collaborative behaviour and students´ international experience
Alexandre Degasperi, Angelo Jose Castro Alves Ferreira Filho, Deivid Almeida, Jorge Muniz Jr, Paulo Lourencao, Julio Cunha (199)
Knowledge Management and Resilence_Study with Logistics Workers of Brazilian Aircraft Industry
Rachel Hilliard, Don Goldstein (206)
Identifying and measuring dynamic capability using search routines
DEVPAPER 03 - MEETING ROOM 4 Chair: Mike Phillips
Deborah Blackman, Nina Terrey, Katie Moon (175)
Using Design Thinking to Reshape Mental Models – learning to make a difference for change
Martin Rost, Eva Sonnenmoser, Birgit Renzl (180)
Social networking of R&D middle managers in the automotive industry to facilitate ambidexterity
Gulnaz Aksenova, Arto Kiviniemi, Tuba Kocaturk (184)
An Empirical Study Investigating a Business Ecosystem Strategies for Value Co-Creation with BIM in design and construction industry
Alaa Garad, Jeff Gold(209)
Towards an Integrative Model for Organisational Learning
LEARN_THEORY 02 - MEETING ROOM 1 Chair: Marco Marabelli
Louise Margaret Doyle (252)
Implementing a Longitudinal Interpretive Case Study in the Public Healthcare Sector: Reflections from the Field
Ali Rostron (234)
Everyday mythologizing: exploring the role of myth in manager identity work
Pavel Bogolyubov, Thomas Grisold, Mark Easterby-Smith (194)
The Thinking behind Systems Thinking: the Cognitive Perspective on the Fifth Discipline
PL_Papers 01 - MEETING ROOM 3 Chair: Jacqueline Hiddlestone-Mumford
Bjørg Aambø Østby (150)
Facilitating Organizational Intercultural Learning through Insider Action Research
Boyka Simeonova (187)
Practical view of how St. James’s Place currently approaches the real world problems of knowledge sharing and learning.
Ahmad Ali Alwahdani (257)
The Impact of Trust and Reciprocity on Knowledge Exchange: A Case Study in IT Outsourcing
PPE SYMPOSIUM 02 – BOARDROOM Chair: Bjørn Erik Mørk
Tonje Hungnes, Thomas Hoholm
Discretionary power and organizational innovation
Maija Vähämäki, Essi Saru (237)
Doctoral supervision as academic practice and leader-member relationship. A critical approach to the power relations in academic learning.
SENSL_SYM 03, Session Chair: Arja Ropo – GRACE SUITE 3
Cecilie Meltzer
Using Arts-based Inquiry as a way to Communicate Creatively in Uncovering the Future
Christa Breum Amhøj
Using Balloons to Co-create Welfare in the Heath Sector in Denmark.
Poula Helth
Using Aesthetic Dramas to Transform Leadership Practice in the Public Sector in Denmark
WP_LEARN 02 – GRACE SUITE BO ROOM Chair: Alexander Engelmann
Olga Andrianova (176)
Changing Boundary Object: Use of Learning Objects to Faciliate Corporate Greeining
Asuncion Esteso Blasco, Maria Gil-Marques, Juan Sapena Bolufer (179)
Does the altruism of Economy of Communion leaders have a positive impact on learning and innovation?
Soila Lemmetty, Kaija Collin (181)
Discourses of workplace learning in information technology personnel’s speech
Friday 27th April
9.00 to 10.30
ACADEMIC IDENTITY IN NEO-LIBERAL TIMES 01-MEETING ROOM 1
Alyson Nicholds, Andre Soares
Processes of being/ becoming research-active: Reflexive insights on shifting academic identity in the neoliberalising of Higher Education
Konstantinos Kakavelakis: On the fringes of academia
AL_SYM 04a: Chair, Sara Csillag – GRACE 1
Meadbh Ruane
A Story of Participant Learning on an Executive Action Learning Masters’ Programme
Sara Csillag
Challenging moral muteness? Action research as development process for HR communty
Søren Frimann, Lone Hersted
Action learning for leadership development and organizational learning
AL_SYM 04b: Chair, Kathryn Winterburn – GRACE 2
Developing Clinical Practice: a strategy for enabling effective participation in action based learning.
AL_SYM 04c: Chair, Jeff Gold - MEETING ROOM 2
Action Learning: A Futures and Foresight Workshop
DEVPAPER 04 - MEETING ROOM 4 Chair: Anas Al Tweijer
Pam Miranda (212)
Dynamic capability theory and its applicability to an Australian social service organisation.
Bjørg Aambø Østby (225)
Organizational intercultural learning as means of enhancing service quality in multicultural workplaces
Marise Helen Lehto (235)
The multiple conceptualizations of language and identity in second-language environments: a scoping review.
SENSL_SYM 04: Chair, Steve Taylor – GRACE 3
Irene Nikandrou
Using Epic Poems and Creative Drama to Develop Realistic Optimism among Undergraduate Students in Greece
Hanna Pauliina Lehtimäki and Heidi Silvast
Using Student-led arts-based methods in Finnish Higher Education to foster Leadership for Change and Renewal
Ashley James Byron Roberts and Ioanna Iordanou
Using ‘Kinaesthetic Exertion’ to Engender Team Psychological Safety in UK Higher Education
WORKSHOP: GROWTH CATALYST: LEARNING IN SMALL FIRMS - MEETING ROOM 6
Ossie Jones, Sara Nadin, Allan Macpherson, Lisa Anderson
Growth Catalyst: An Entrepreneurial Learning Journey
WORKSHOP: LEARNING TO PUBLISH (IN IJMR) - MEETING ROOM 7
Dermot Breslin. Co-editor, International Journal of Management Reviews
WORKSHOP: LEARNING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN INTERAGENCY WORKING BETWEEN CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND WELFARE SYSTEMS
MEETING ROOM 3
Sarah Hean, Paivikki Lahtinen, Anu Kajamaa, Laura Seppänen, Marie Aakjær, Tina Murphy, Laure Kloetzer
10.30 TO 11.00 TEA AND COFFEE
11.00 TO 12.30 – GRACE SUITE
PLENARY – PROF MARY CROSSAN: CHARACTER INFUSED LEARNING
12.30 TO 13.30 – LUNCH AND NETWORKING
FRIDAY 27th APRIL – 13.30 TO 15.00
AL_SYM 05a: Chair, Ruth Cook – GRACE 1
Ruth Cook, Sonja Antell
Making waves - action learning for social change
AL_SYM 05b: Chair, David Coghlan – GRACE 2
What Kind of Organisational Knowledge is generated by Action Learning?
AL_SYM 05c: Chair, David Higgins – MEETING ROOM 2
Writing an Account of Practice or Refereed Paper for the Journal of Action Learning: research & practice
CAPABILITIES 04 – MEETING ROOM 7 Chair: Maria Gil-Marques
Jorge Muniz, Daniel Wintersberg, Jacky F. L. Hong (193)
Assembly Line Worker Perceptions of Factors Facilitating Knowledge Sharing: The Case of the MAN Modular Consortium in Brazil
Bersisa Gutema Berri, Rory Donnelly (220)
Knowledge Integration and its Role in Enhancing Four Dimensions Of Nonprofit Organisational Effectiveness
Aurora Martínez-Martínez, Juan-Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Alexeis García-Pérez, Ana Moreno-Ponce (201)
Updating environmental knowledge through exploitation and exploration: an empirical investigation in hotels
DEVPAPER 05 – MEETING ROOM 4 Chair: Pam Miranda
Anas Al Tweijer (141)
Promoting Organisational Learning through Managerial Roles In The Jordanian Pharmaceutical Industry: The Moderating Role Of Organisational Social Capital
Dmitrijs Kravcenko1, Fabio Petani (249)
Space and Organisational Memory: A Review and Research Agenda
Nor Erlissa Abd Aziz, R.M.U. Susantha Udagedara, Sudi Sharifi (229)
An Exploration of Organizational Elements on Social Media Platforms Based Knowledge Sharing: The Case of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Malaysia
EDUCATION 03 - – MEETING ROOM 5 Chair: Allen Higgins
Allen Wayne Batteau, Carmen Bueno (124)
The Space-Place Relationship in a Virtual Learning Environment
Mariana Altopiedi, Nieves Oliva, Julián López-Yáñez, Marita Sánchez-Moreno, Manon Toussaints (165)
Learning about principals’ learning: an analysis of a training experience on educational leadership
Silvana Ferreira Pinheiro e Silva, Márcia Meira Berti Fiorin, Marilda Todescat (270)
Perceptions and Aesthetic Judgments of the Classroom - Actions Based on the Senses
HRM 03 - – MEETING ROOM 6 Chair: Atif Hassan
Oksana Galak (105)
"Know thy customer": non-anonymity as the driver of the other-directed job effort under incomplete contracts
Cara C Maurer (189)
Learning from Diversity
Nicola Cangialosi, Adalgisa Battistelli, Carlo Odoardi (222)
Linking HRM Training Practices and Innovative Work Behavior: The Influences of Proactive Personality, Learning Goal Orientation and Reflexivity
PL_PAPERS 02 - – MEETING ROOM 3 Chair: Boyka Simeonova
Alaa Garad, Jeff Gold (164)
The Learning-Driven Organisation; Towards an Ecosystem for Organisational Learning
Carol Helen Baumgarten (178)
Charting a Course for Collaborative Change
Jacqueline Hiddlestone-Mumford (203)
Infrastructure configuration strategies to deliver workplace environmental change
SENSL_SYM 05: Chair, Arja Ropo – GRACE 3
Giuseppe Scaratti, Mara Gorli and Frode Heldal
Using Narratives and Portraits to foster Reflexivity through Learning from Experience in Health Care Organisations in Italy and Denmark
Andrew Jonathan Mountfield
Using Art-Based Methods to Explore Learning in an Individual With Systemizing Bias
Elena Antonacopoulou and Steve Taylor
Open discussion
WP_LEARN 03 – GRACE SUITE BO ROOM Chair: Allan Macpherson
Marian Evans (190)
Learning by doing: using experience to develop expertise
Kurt Dauer Keller (202)
Institutional and organizational structuring of meaning
Jinglin Jiang (171)
A Study of Expatriates’ Learning Flexibility, Cultural Distance, Adaptation and Adaptive Performance in China
FRIDAY 27th APRIL – 15.00 TO 15.30 – TEA AND COFFEE
FRIDAY 27th APRIL – 15.30 TO 16.30 – GRACE SUITE
CLOSING PLENARY
Reflections on OLKC2018: Hans Berends and Mary Crossan
Lisa Anderson, Allan Macpherson: Are we learning to make a difference?
Sue Newell: Introducing OLKC2019
17.00 TO 20.00 - Farewell Event
Revolucion De Cuba – A BAR ON THE HISTORIC ALBERT DOCK