Employees' Perception of the Learning Organization

Management Learning

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 469-491

  Thomsen, Hanne Kargaard ^a   Hoest, Viggo ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Case study; Frames for learning; Learning environment; Management; Measurement; Structural equation modelling; The learning organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345820347     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507601324004     Document Type: Article

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