Human resource development in construction organisations: An example of a "chaordic" learning organisation?

Learning Organization

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 63-79

  Raidén, Ani B ^a   Dainty, Andrew R J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Construction industry; Human resource development; Learning organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644559013     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470610639130     Document Type: Article

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