making a revolution in business education. As it is generally known, the leading part in
the business world today is played by large integration organizations, which concentrate
independent enterprises for joint realization of complex tasks on the basis of stable mu-
tual relations. The main feature of enterprise networks is the innovational character of
the activity, which is grounded on the own intangible assets rather than on the physical
educational capital of the personnel. At the same time the company is not just the owner
of a gigantic intellectual capital; it also disposes of broad operational abilities. That is
why the companies can share the lead with universities and business schools as sources
of economics and managerial knowledge (Evenko 1998). So the conclusion is that a
modern enterprise has managed to find a way of the effective strategic development,
which consists of the enterprise creation as a learning organization and a knowledge
management system.
The terms «learning organization» and «knowledge management» have been
widely practiced in Europe and America since 1980s. These terms have expressed the
results of leading corporations’ efforts in the sphere of seeking tools suitable for modern
informational challenge. In fact the system of knowledge management and learning or-
ganization creation is not an absolutely new model of market enterprise development. It
is closer to the innovational means to apply progressive managerial methods.
As for a scientific theory as the basis of the learning organization conception,
there are two models: American model by Peter Senge and European model, created by
several authors (Vill’-Villiams 2002, Senge 2001, Pedler 1997). Those theories formu-
late the following main elements of the learning organization (see Table 1).
The combination of all elements into a single system provides a real advantage
for the organization. At the same time the very training process, which is realized to
some extent at every enterprise, is gaining great importance now. Since the learning or-
ganization is the structure permanently seeking the tools for the improvement, the edu-
cation is not so much the knowledge collection as the intelligent creation to apply those
tools (Vedomosti 2001).