Learning Groups: What Types Are There? A Theoretical Analysis and an Empirical Study in a Consultancy Firm

Organization Studies

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 287-313

  Bogenrieder, Irma ^a,b   Nooteboom, Bart ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Communities of practice; Competence; Consultancy firms; Governance; Learning groups; Organizational learning; Social networks; Teams; Trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 1442329707     PISSN: 01708406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0170840604040045     Document Type: Review

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