Intellectual labor has become the most important factor of production in the recent years. Organizational learning has become increasingly important as a sustainable competitive strategy for the survival of organizations in today's fast changing environment. Organizational learning was studied in the manufacturing and information technology sectors in the Indian and multinational companies operating in India.

Organizational learning depends on a number of organizational conditions such as climate, culture, structure, methods of innovation and so forth. Many authors have opined that learning is the only sustainable competitive advantage (De Geus, 1988; and Stata, 1989), since we cannot copy the learning process. It creates an organizational ability to respond quickly to the internal and external changes. Rapid technological changes demand a flexible and multi-skilled workforce. It has become essential for the individuals at all levels of organizational hierarchy to learn new and different ways of reacting to competitive pressures.

In the last decade, a lot of researchers have concentrated on processes of learning within firms. These studies have been limited to firms in the advanced countries Chenani et al., 1990; Kogut and Zander, 1992; and Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995).

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