本书为全英文版。是对外经济贸易大学国际商学院管理文丛之一。This book is concerned with organizational learning in an intercultural context.It looks at what organizational learning entails in Chinese-EWestern joint ventures by examining both the technical and the social perspectives to bearning. An integrated approach is offered that explores the possibility for mutual/collaborative learning in Chinese-Western joint ventures. This approach incorporates a relational perspective that emphasizes the ways in which people make sense of their experience.It seeks to bring to the surface different layers of knowledge and meaning created and recreated in the process of learning and change.

Introduction

Part One

1  Key Concepts and Ideas of Organizational Learning / 6

2  The Politics of Learning and Organizing / 25

3  Dialogue and Learning / 48

Part Two

4  Organizational Learning in International Joint Ventures / 62

5  The Intercultural Context of Learning/78

6  The Process of Learning in Chinese - Western Joint Ventures / 96

7  Examples of Learning and Partner Relationships / 121

8  Learning and Partner Relationships / 153

Part Three

9  Overview of Key Dimensions of Learning in Chinese - Western Joint Ventures / 180

10 An Integrated Approach to Learning / 194

Postscript

Appendix

1  Notes on Research Methodology and Participating JVs / 221

2  Some Background Information on Joint Ventures in China / 230

3  References / 243