Against learning

Human Relations

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 931-952

  Contu, Alessia ^a   Grey, Christopher ^b,c   Örtenblad, Anders ^d  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Critique; Discourse; Knowledge; Learning; Organizational learning; Politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142138758     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00187267030568002     Document Type: Review

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