We study the performance of a multi-lateral financing organization responsible for funding pollution elimination projects in low- and middle-income countries. We find that the organization’s performance improved by around 20 percent over two decades and that a large part of this improvement arose from experience gained internally by the organization itself. We identify a paradox in the way that the task iterations performed by this and other organizations can be measured to accumulate into organizational experience. We find that differently-accumulated task iterations produce experience variables with coefficients that vary by a factor of 4. We propose that learning progressions – a theory that we transpose from the pedagogical sciences to the organizational learning literature - may explain this paradox. The findings of this research enrich the organizational performance and learning literature with insights from the pedagogical sciences. They also provide insights for improving the proficiency of multi-lateral financing organizations at funding global pollution elimination activities today.
Comissão Organizadora
Anderson Odias da Silva
Claudia Yoshinaga
Ricardo D. Brito
Felipe Saraiva Iachan
Vinicius Augusto Brunassi Silva
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