Of course organizations can learn!

Learning Organization

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 213-218

  Örtenblad, Anders ^a  

^a HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Individual development; Learning; Learning organizations; Metaphors

Indexed keywords

EID: 19744374701     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470510583566     Document Type: Review

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