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Collective Learning Networks in SME Arenas

Marianne Sökjer-Petersen explores the significance of networks as arenas for collective learning among SMEs. Networking involves synthesizing information, brokering resources, and gaining personal support. These networks serve as learning arenas, creating contacts between academia and business for mutual benefit. They involve cooperative actions, informal communication, and affiliation based on trust. Recognizing common goals, creating collective settings, and fostering a sense of group identity are key for collective learning in inter-organizational settings.

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Collective Learning Networks in SME Arenas

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  1. Networks - Arenas for collective learning between SME ? ByMarianne Sökjer-Petersen, Senior Lecturer, PH. D. Lund University, Department of Psychology Marianne Sökjer-Petersen

  2. Networking - why Collecting and synthesizing information from ‘secure channels’ Brokering of resources Gaining of personal support Marianne Sökjer-Petersen

  3. Network is used as • Synonym to group, local clusters of SME, losely formed associations • Learning arenas • Ways of creating contacts between academic and economic life for mutual benefit • As learning themes in krAft groups, often together with the theme creation of strategic alliances. • A description of the cooperative actions undertaken between the members of academic syndicate • As a way of marketing KrAft Marianne Sökjer-Petersen

  4. Network - Characteristics • Voluntariness • Informal cooperation • Open horizontal communication patterns • Floating boundaries • Perceived personal usefulness • Personal affiliation and trust • Egocentrism Marianne Sökjer-Petersen

  5. Organizational Characteristics • Planned formal cooperation for the achievement of collectively recognized goals and needs • Closed or semi-closed hierarchical and horizontal communication patterns • Fixed boundaries • Impersonalized authority structures • Substitutability of individuals • Trustworthiness built around the organization as such – not the individual Marianne Sökjer-Petersen

  6. Groups - characteristics • Formed around common needs, values and goals • A platform for the formation of social/collective identity - belongingness • Awareness of one-self and the others as group members • Solidarity and affiliation within the group Marianne Sökjer-Petersen

  7. Prerequisites for collective learning in inter-organizational settings • Recognizance of common needs and goals • Affiliation • Change agents • Creation of a collective setting - an arena for learning • Formation of collective identity, e.g. becoming a group Marianne Sökjer-Petersen

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