About this Research Topic
The problem of the transfer of training has concerned both scholars and professionals. However, a very small percentage of what is learned in training is ultimately applied to the job. As a result, there is a paradox, an explanatory gap in the relationship between training and performance. Without transference, training efforts cannot contribute to the effectiveness of the organization. Nevertheless, how or by what mechanism is training transferred to performance? What is its true relationship?
All this shows the need to look for new approaches to training, different from the traditional perspectives, which allow to explain, and, above all, to put into practice education and training systems that produce transference. The dynamic capabilities theory is one of the most novel currents and that could shed more light on this topic. In the literature, we can find up to four main components of the dynamic capabilities: i) the adaptative capacity or flexibility, ii) the absorptive capacity, iii) the innovative capacity, and iv) the learning capacity.
Other training problems related to the appropriability of training (e.g. retention of the best-trained employees or avoiding the brain drain from a country) the depreciation of training, as well as technological advances, issues of equality, diversity, and inclusion are also aspects of interest today.
Therefore, this Research Topic is open to research works dealing with the above-mentioned themes. We aim to bring together the latest research framed in new approaches to training and education. More specifically, we want to attract studies on:
• New insights in training/education systems/programs (in public politics, organizational or individual level);
• Impacts of COVID-19 on training/education;
• Digital transformation, technological forecasting and social change in training/education systems/programs;
• Transfer of training, effectiveness, performance, and development, evaluation of educational programs, planning and design of training schemes, training needs;
• Training and dynamic capabilities (absorptive, innovative, adaptative, and/or learning capacities);
• Education and dynamic capabilities;
• Issues regarding the definition, content, measurement, and components of dynamic capabilities (i.e. absorptive, innovative, adaptative, and/or learning capacities), including the processes of dynamic abilities over time; in diverse industries and national contexts; in knowledge-transfer; in high-performance business models; antecedents and consequences; new applications.
Reviews following quality criteria will also be considered. We especially welcome research projects that adopt a multi-sectoral and transdisciplinary approach.
All this shows the need to look for new approaches to training, different from the traditional perspectives, which allow to explain, and, above all, to put into practice education and training systems that produce transference. The dynamic capabilities theory is one of the most novel currents and that could shed more light on this topic. In the literature, we can find up to four main components of the dynamic capabilities: i) the adaptative capacity or flexibility, ii) the absorptive capacity, iii) the innovative capacity, and iv) the learning capacity.
Other training problems related to the appropriability of training (e.g. retention of the best-trained employees or avoiding the brain drain from a country) the depreciation of training, as well as technological advances, issues of equality, diversity, and inclusion are also aspects of interest today.
Therefore, this Research Topic is open to research works dealing with the above-mentioned themes. We aim to bring together the latest research framed in new approaches to training and education. More specifically, we want to attract studies on:
• New insights in training/education systems/programs (in public politics, organizational or individual level);
• Impacts of COVID-19 on training/education;
• Digital transformation, technological forecasting and social change in training/education systems/programs;
• Transfer of training, effectiveness, performance, and development, evaluation of educational programs, planning and design of training schemes, training needs;
• Training and dynamic capabilities (absorptive, innovative, adaptative, and/or learning capacities);
• Education and dynamic capabilities;
• Issues regarding the definition, content, measurement, and components of dynamic capabilities (i.e. absorptive, innovative, adaptative, and/or learning capacities), including the processes of dynamic abilities over time; in diverse industries and national contexts; in knowledge-transfer; in high-performance business models; antecedents and consequences; new applications.
Reviews following quality criteria will also be considered. We especially welcome research projects that adopt a multi-sectoral and transdisciplinary approach.
Keywords: training, education, performance, learning, innovation, absorptive capacity, adaptative capacity
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