Abstract:
In this paper we rethink and reframe organizational learning
in terms of organizational becoming. We see these concepts as two
mutually implicating ways of exploring and simultaneously constituting
the phenomena of organization. Bearing in mind that the understanding
of organization is simultaneously a question of the organization of
understanding, we reflect on the complex interrelation between thinking
and organizing. In order to connect the processes of learning and
becoming, we consider the concept of organization as space in between
order and chaos. We propose a perspective that sees learning not as
something that is done to organizations, or as something that an organization
does; rather, learning and organizing are seen as mutually constitutive
and unstable, yet pragmatic, constructs that might enable a
dynamic appreciation of organizational life. Further, we argue that
the becoming that is in organizing implies a permanent non-rational
movement such that organization can never be rationally defined.
