Making learning critical: Identity, emotion, and power in processes of management development

Systems Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 749-771

  Willmott, Hugh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action Learning; Critical management learning; Critical thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011141843     PISSN: 08949859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02557923     Document Type: Article

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