Cognitive Organizations and Distance Learning

Abstract

International businesses are trying to find an alternative to the traditional paradigmatic units of time, space and action which persist in the learning sphere. Immaterial assets have become strategic and the relationship to knowledge and information is thus changed. In this context, e-learning, which has emerged more slowly than expected, is becoming a real field of research in information system. It fully takes part to the organizational transformations of globalize businesses. Are remote teaching devices capable of contributing to the evolution of cognitive organizations? According to an inductive approach applied to a series of interviews, a model may be singled out. It may thus be noticed that in order to succeed, businesses must not rely only on the access to knowledge anywhere and at any time. Indeed, the ability to adapt to the environment's fast variations must be regarded as necessary to encourage the appropriation of frequent technological changes.