Taking power seriously in strategic organizational learning

The Learning Organization

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 9-25

  Voronov, Maxim ^a   Yorks, Lyle ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergent strategy; Learning organizations; Management power; Politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 19644391581     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: 1758905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470510574232     Document Type: Article

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