Exploring Constraints on Developing Knowledge: On the Need for Conflict

Management Learning

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 459-475

  Beech, Nic ^a   MacIntosh, Robert ^b   MacLean, Donald ^b   Shepherd, Jill ^a   Stokes, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complexity theory; Conflict; Knowledge management; Multi perspectives; Psychodynamics; Social construction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345807493     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507602334004     Document Type: Article

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