Providing competence to the product development project: A conflict between fragmentary learning and holistic use

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 41-55

  Österlund, Jan ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Competence; Fragmentary learning (specialization); Gatekeeper; Group; Group roles; Holistic (multidisciplinary problem solving); Informatics; Joint problem solving; Network anasynthesis; Organism; Organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032622839     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1743(199901/02)16:1<41::AID-SRES298>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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