Reflecting on impacts of Peter Senge's Fifth Discipline on learning organizations

摘要

This special issue of The Learning Organization journal reflects upon 30 years of impact resulting from Peter Senge's book The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. The articles within this issue discuss the influence of Senge's groundbreaking work in which he integrated system thinking into learning organization constructs. Just as much of Senge's work originated from practice and experimentation, many of the articles within this issue test Senge's five disciplines against organizational change and practical applications over the past three decades. For a practitioner, this issue holds many benefits in understanding how theories created in the 1980s still apply in the modern world. One can walk away from the issue with an understanding of how in an ever-changing, fast-paced world, Senge's five disciplines remain resilient in many areas unthought of when the groundbreaking book first hit the bookshelves in 1990.