Double-loop learning: Difference between revisions

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Historical precursors: moved Cyert & March's work here; would be good to mention second-order cybernetics too; "It changes rules in response to longer-run feedback"—except when it doesn't!
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''[[A Behavioral Theory of the Firm]]'' (1963) describes how organizations learn, using (what would now be described as) double-loop learning:
 
{{Quote|text=An organization ... changes its behavior in response to short-run feedback from the environment according to some fairly well-defined rules. It changes rules in response to longer-run feedback according to more general rules, and so on.|author=[[Richard Cyert]] and [[James G. March]]| source=''A Behavioural Theory of the Firm''<ref>{{cite book |author=Cyert R.M., March J.G |title=''[[A Behavioral Theory of the Firm]] |year=1963 |publisher=Prentice-Hall |___location=New Jersey |pages=101-102}}</ref><ref>Quote taken from p. 9 of ''The Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge ManagmentManagement'' (2003) which describes this quote as "an early version of the distinction between single and double-loop learning." and refers to the 1963 edition.</ref>}}
 
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