Organizational Learning: Trends in the Social Construction of a Field

Organizational learning literature offers considerable choices to prospective researchers. Some of the choices are as fundamental as the 'what', 'how' and 'why' of learning. As there are little theories to anchor, it is left to the researchers to socially construct and reconstruct the fragmented field. This paper studies the empirical research published in the top 10 journals during 2000- 2010 and identifies the areas of convergence. Researchers considerably agree on using agentic perspective on learning and organization as the level of analysis. Much agreement exists on the use of exploration-exploitation framework of learning, quantitative methodologies, and longitudinal designs. Strategy has emerged as the most prolific contributor to the organizational learning research.