Fragmentation and the positivist legacy
The knowledge, learning and memorizing literatures are inconsistent in many
ways. Fiol and Lyles (1985) argued that the organizational learning literature
actually covered two distinct concepts, cognitive learning or behavioural
learning. Daft and Huber (1987) noted two perspectives, one “systemsstructural”
the other “interpretive”, and that organizational learning can take
place in either. Huber (1991, p. 89), skirting Fiol and Lyles’s point and invoking
the notion of “potential behaviour”, argued that organizational learning
comprised both behavioural and cognitive dimensions. Weick (1991, p. 116)
warned us that organizational theorists took up the notion of learning at