Evidence base for Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting: summary of the literature review - Dexis Consulting Group (2020)

This paper provides a literature review on collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA). It looks at whether, how, and under what circumstances CLA leads to greater organisational effectiveness and development outcomes. The literature review confirms tacit collective experiences that collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) can contribute to both organizational effectiveness and development results; it also confirms that it is difficult to measure this impact or contribution. The literature review finds that there are discrete pieces of evidence pointing to the importance of collaborating, learning, and/or adapting on both organizational effectiveness and development outcomes. This evidence is typically in the form of case studies on development programmes.