Organizational Learning: Mechanisms, Culture, and Feasibility

Management Learning

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 181-196

  Popper, Micha ^a   Lipshitz, Raanan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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EID: 0013407804     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507600312003     Document Type: Article

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