Quantitative assessment of a Senge learning organization intervention

Learning Organization

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 369-383

  Kiedrowski, P Jay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning organizations; Organizational development

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745103110     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470610667742     Document Type: Article

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