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Cooperative learning business partnerships and knowledge networks

Industrial and service companies increasingly achieve their competitive advantages on the basis of strategic partnerships. The general assertion in the article is that the quality and effectiveness of implemented changes is higher in the cases when such modifications are being implemented through the process of learning achieved through partnerships. It has been argued in the paper that cooperative partnerships have a tendency to build a strong learning environment and therefore exhibit a greater potential to be transformed into learning organizations. It is therefore suggested that the key to improving competitive advantages lies in the ability of companies to form cooperative learning partnerships. On the basis of defining features of the learning orientation and the learning company philosophy a conceptual cooperative partnership learning framework has been outlined comprising a set of hypotheses linking variables designed according to the learning company concept with the individual and partnership performance. Learning partnerships are therefore viewed as an important prerequisite for regional economic development.

Learning company; organizational learning; cooperation; partnership

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