Recommendations for future studies

To determine factors that could enhance learning from project to project in project based organisations, future studies may investigate the factors that make some organisations perform better than others in corporate learning. This study focused on learning in the African Development Bank. Future studies could also look at the learning processes in the borrowing governments and in the contractor companies to see how these partners are able to support the improvements in the learning process in the AfDB.

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