The Oxford Handbook of Group and Organizational Learning

In this chapter, the authors aim to provide a concise overview of the literature on the relationship between organizational structure and organizational learning. The objective is to organize rather than survey the literature in depth, with a view to making opportunities for further research more salient. They consider two dimensions of organizational structure: the extent to which influence patterns are clustered and symmetric, as well as two forms of organizational learning—online and offline. Arraying the existing results from the literature along these dimensions shows exactly where the empirical and theoretical gaps are, and the authors suggest these are particularly amenable to approaches combining models and experiments on groups.