The Learning Organization: An Undelivered Promise

Management Learning

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 437-452

  Elkjaer, Bente ^a  

^a Department of Innovation and Organizational Economics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Case study; Communities of practice; Learning theory; Organizational learning; Pragmatism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346451506     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507601324002     Document Type: Article

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