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In the field of professional, continuous, and corporate education (PCCE)37 there is a recurrent complaint concerning the effectiveness of the educational process (Mintzberg, 1988; Mintzberg, 1996; Schön, 1983). Effectiveness is “the ability of a system to produce what it must produce.” Therefore, in an effective PCCE system people should learn to do what they must do when working in their companies. Unfortunately this is not what one can observe; actual PCCE systems produce people who get a lot of knowledge but who are unable to put it into practice.
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Bronfman, S.V. (2007). BRIDGING THE KNOWING-DOING GAP. In: McCuddy, M.K., van den Bosch, H., Martz, W.B., Matveev, A.V., Morse, K.O. (eds) The Challenges of Educating People to Lead in a Challenging World. Educational Innovation in Economics and Business, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5612-3_26
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