Sound from silence: On listening in organizational learning

Human Relations

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 115-138

  Jacobs, Claus ^a   Coghlan, David ^b  

^a Imagination Lab Foundation   (Switzerland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Listening; Organizational learning; Phenomenology; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 15544380186     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726705050938     Document Type: Article

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