Transforming Public Organizations into Learning Organizations: A Conceptual Model

The concepts of organizational learning and learning organizations have gained popularity in recent organization theory literature
as complementary subjects. So far majority of studies on these issues focused on the relationship between organizational learning
and its ultimate consequences such as increased innovative capacity, increased productivity, and higher competitive advantage
of organizations. Nevertheless, many researchers examined the processes of organizational learning from the standpoint of
private enterprises, paying little attention to the dynamics of organizational learning in public sector. This paper is aimed
to fill this gap by introducing and discussing the basic constituents of a novel conceptual model which demonstrates the relevant
steps in transforming of public organizations into learning organizations.