Quantity versus Quality in Project-based Learning Practices

Management Learning

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 77-98

  Keegan, Anne ^a,b   Turner, J Rodney ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Centralization; Deferral; Organizational learning; Projects; Reflection; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012246289     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507601321006     Document Type: Article

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