The New Little Rascals? Forming Multi-Sector Learning Gangs

Authors

Nancy K. Napier, Boise State UniversityFollow
Linda Clark-Santos, Boise State University
Angeli Weller, Copenhagen Business School

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-2014

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.orgdyn.2014.03.005

Abstract

In 1922, the movie producer Hal Roach began a series of silent short films, which in 1929 became ‘‘talkies.’’ The films featured a group of neighborhood kids called Our Gang (also known as The Little Rascals). Progressive for its time, the films showed children of all types–—girls and boys, blacks and whites–—getting into mischief and perhaps even learning from each other.

Maybe the times are right for another type of gang that mixes different groups of people and gets into a new kind of mischief?

Publication Information

Napier, Nancy K.; Clark-Santos, Linda; and Weller, Angeli. (2014). "The New Little Rascals? Forming Multi-Sector Learning Gangs". Organizational Dynamics, 43(2), 114-121.