Shared Knowledge and Understandings in Organizations: Its Development and Impact in Organizational Learning Processes
探讨组织学习中背景假设如何变化和发展，融合Engeström的扩展学习理论与Argyris和Schön的“使用理论”，通过制药行业案例研究过程模拟对员工培训和工作实践的影响。
This article considers the meaning of background assumptions in the process of learning and development in organizations, and builds on actor and activity theoretical views. Learning is assumed as collective development in social systems as stated in Engeström's theory of expansive learning. The question is answered as to how background assumptions change and develop in the expansive learning cycle. Therefore, Engeström's model is fused with the concepts `theory in use' by Argyris and Schön, and `local theory' by Baitsch. The inter-relation between the change in background assumptions and expansive learning is discussed in a case study from the pharmaceutical industry. The case study describes a process simulation designed for staff training in the production area. Results are based on a qualitative empirical survey of process simulation and its effect on daily work.