Chris Argyris was an American business theorist, born 16 July 1923 in Newark, New Jersey, and died 16 November 2013. He was a professor at Yale School of Management and Harvard Business School and is known, alongside Richard Beckhard, Edgar Schein, and Warren Bennis, as a pioneer of organization development, with seminal work on learning organizations. He developed the concept of double loop learning, contrasted with single loop learning, and contributed the ladder of inference and intervention theory to the study of organizational learning.
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BirthplaceNewark, New Jersey, United States 1 Death PlaceWeston, Massachusetts, United States 1 Defining ContributionPioneer of organization development and organizational learning theory, best known for developing the double-loop learning concept with Donald Schon. 1 Notable Workdouble-loop learning theory 1 Connections
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Foundational organizational-learning scholar with Donald Schon; Peter Senge, who popularized the term, is not yet a live entity, see MintCandidate.
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November 16, 2013
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Argyris was born a twin, along with Thomas S. Argyris (1923-2001), into a family of Greek immigrants to the United States in Newark, New Jersey.
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Argyris died on November 16, 2013, age 90, and is buried at Linwood Cemetery in Weston, Massachusetts.
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was an American business theorist and professor at Yale School of Management and Harvard Business School
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double-loop learning
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