Oliva, Rogelio, "Managerial Learning Laboratories: An Action Research Project for Group Learning", 1994
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The purpose of this paper is two fold. The first is to structure the thinking and theories about managerial learning laboratories as held by the MIT Organizational Learning Center. The second purpose is to go beyond the utilization of management flight simulators and redefine those theories based on the experience of implementing five managerial learning literature is used to frame some of the results from the study and to generate new models aimed at increasing the effectiveness of managerial learning laboratories as group learning setting. The paper can be viewed as iteration of action-research, where active participation of the researcher in the problem situation is followed by reflection and learning from the process. The lessons are then used to update the theories that gave origin to the action.