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Excerpt from Locating Adaptive Learning: The Situated Nature of Adaptive Learning in Organizations
Data for this study were gathered from two projects involving the introduction of new production machines into factory contexts. The introduction and subsequent adaptation of new production equipment in the manufacturing plant provides a rich context in which to study organizational adaptive learning. Unexpected problems are common, and adaptation is important both for developing new technical solutions, and for clarifying previously undefined cause and effect relationships (rosenberg, 1982; leonard-barton, Further, interaction among multiple organizational actors (principally manufacturing engineers who work in the lab, and users who work in the manufacturing context) has been shown to be important for diagnosing and resolving errors with new process equipment (tyre and Hauptman.
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