The Situated Nature of Adaptive Learning in Organizations

Organization Science

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 71-83

  Tyre, Marcie J ^a   Von Hippel, Eric ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive Learning; Learning by Doing; Situated Learning; Technical Problem Solving

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031488595     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.8.1.71     Document Type: Article

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