On 16 November 2004, the Foundation signed a research agreement with professors Gregorio Martín de Castro and Pedro López Sáez to carry out research entitled Dynamics of organisational learning in knowledge-intensive companies, which resulted in a book published in English by a commercial publisher and in Spanish in the Foundation's Economía y Empresa collection.
The research was carried out at the Real Colegio Complutense of Harvard University in collaboration with Professor Raquel Galindo of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. The research addresses the study of organisational learning processes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.
The theoretical analysis, based on the CESI model and the main contributions on the subject under analysis, aims to develop a general descriptive model of the different processes of knowledge creation and transfer or organisational learning that can take place in companies. The empirical work provided evidence on the organisational learning dynamics that appear in business reality. It also determined which of them offer the greatest strategic potential.
For this purpose, empirical testing was carried out in knowledge-intensive, high-tech firms located in the Boston Highway 128 metropolitan area in order to provide statistical validity and generalisability to the results obtained.
The content of this research materialised in the book "Dynamics of organisational learning in high-tech firms" published in 2007.
