Aptitude for Destruction: Case Studies of Organizational Learning in Five Terrorist Groups, vol. 2.HV6431 2005-003983 0-8330-3767-6 Aptitude for destruction; v.2: Case studies of organizational learning Organizational learning is an area of knowledge within organizational theory that studies models and theories about the way an organization learns and adapts. In Organizational development (OD), learning is a characteristic of an adaptive organization, i.e. in five terrorist groups. Jackson, Brian A. et al. RAND, [c]2005 200 p. $30.00 (pa) Applying the principles set out in the first volume, five case studies look at organizational learning in Aum Shinrikyo AUM Shinrikyo (Japanese; “AUM Supreme Truth”) Japanese new religious movement founded by Asahara Shoko (b. 1955 as Matsumoto Chizuo) in 1987. It contained elements of Hinduism and Buddhism and was founded on the millenarian expectation of a series of , Hizballah, Jemaah Islamiyah, the Provisional Irish Republican Army Noun 1. Provisional Irish Republican Army - a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland , and the radical environmentalist environmentalist a person with an interest and knowledge about the interaction of humans and animals with the environment. movement as though it were an organization. The final chapters explain organizational learning as a four-component process, and how that pattern appears in the examples. There is no index. |
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