Linking shared organisational context and relational capital through unlearning: An initial empirical investigation in SMEs

Learning Organization

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 49-62

  Cegarra Navarro, Juan G ^a   Dewhurst, Frank W ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intellectual capital; Learning; Learning organizations; Small to medium sized enterprises; Spain

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644500724     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470610639121     Document Type: Article

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