Measuring organizational learning capability in Indian managers and establishing firm performance linkage: An empirical analysis

The Learning Organization

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 416-433

  Jyotsna, Bhatnagar ^a  

^a MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Company performance; India; Learning; Learning organizations; Managers

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746701302     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: 1758905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470610679965     Document Type: Article

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