ABSTRACT Based on a prior study suggesting that companies of the communion economy project are learning-oriented, mainly because of the quality of their interpersonal and interorganizational relationships, this article compares the practice of those firms with the concept of learning organizations. Fourteen conceptual characteristics of learning organizations were tested on employees and managers of four firms of the project, and considerable similarities between the two organizational concepts were detected
organizational learning; learning organizations; communion economy; organizational change; the spirituality of unity
