| Using 245 faculty from 1,000 faculty members in 200 business schools in the United States and 99 faculty drawn from 200 faculty members in 25 business schools in Thailand, the relationship of the usefulness of Learning Organization in respect to leadership, culture, managing people as assets and structures and process was explored in term of Internet usage, as paramount in order for Learning Organization to work for faculty member. Senge's (1990) definition of a Learning Organization was used as the primary one; "...an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future."; Two research propositions were as follows: (1) Business school faculty who perceive higher levels of Learning Organization characteristics in their universities will also report higher amounts of Internet usage, more types of Internet usage and more types of Internet work applications (teaching, research and consulting) than business school faculty who perceive lower levels of Learning Organization characteristics. (2) Overall, the United Stated business school faculty will report higher levels of Learning Organization characteristics and the greater amounts of Internet use, typed of Internet use and types of Internet work applications (teaching, research and consulting) than Thai business school faculty.; The results of this study showed that there was a relationship between business school faculty usage of the Internet and Learning Organization characteristics in the United States and Thai universities in term of leadership, culture and structure and process. In addition, there was a significant difference in the mean of Learning Organization characteristics in leadership and structure and process dimension in term of the United States business school faculty being lower than That business school faculty.; One contribution of this research was the addition of individual and organizational characteristics as factors impacting Internet usage. The most factors that impact Internet usage were level of computer literacy and a positive attitude toward the importance of Internet usage. These factors had a positive significant relation to the amount of hours, use of Internet tools and work applications in terms of teaching, research and consulting. |
