Strategies of renewal the transition from 'Total Quality Management' to the 'Learning Organization'

Management Learning

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 149-180

  Ferguson Amores, María G ^a   García Rodríguez, Manuel ^a   Ruiz Navarro, José ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÁDIZ   (Spain)

^b Universidad de Cádiz   (Spain)

Author keywords

Learning history; Learning organization; Organization renewal; Organizational learning; Total quality management

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444448577     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507605052556     Document Type: Article

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