A. B. (Rami) Shani is Professor of Organizational Behaviorand Change at California Polytechnic State University, San LuisObispo. He is a visiting Research Professor on the FENIX Programmeat the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.
Peter Docherty is Professor of Services OperationsManagement at the Institute of Industrial Economics and Management(INDEK) at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. Heis also a Senior Researcher at the National Institute for WorkingLife in Stockholm.A. B. (Rami) Shani and Peter Docherty havecollaborated previously on the book Creating Sustainable WorkSystems: Emerging Perspectives and Practice (2002).

1. The Critical Need for Learning by Design.
2. Competitive Strategy, Sustainablility and Learning.
3. Individual Competencies, Learning and Performance.
4. Designing Business-focused Teams.
5. Transformation and Learning.
6. Development Processes, Learning and Competitiveness.
7. Knowledge Management Processes and Learning.
8. Learning in Multi Stakeholder Network.
9. Designing Sustainable Learning Organization.
10. Learning by Design: Change and Future.
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This book advances a design-based approach for the investigationand creation of sustainable organizations. The learning-by-designframework is utilized to examine learning in six successfulcompanies in different industries and national settings andprovides a roadmap for improving systematic learning inorganizations.
* * Investigates learning-by-design in successful companies.
* Focuses on the choices organizations make about the design oflearning mechanisms.
* Built around six detailed case studies taken from differentindustries and national settings.
* Provides a framework for improving the conditions forsystematic and sustainable learning in organizations.
* Offers a clear process model for action and change.