Learning in Organizations: Schools of Thought and Current Challenges

Dynamics of Organizational Change and Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 371-388

  Sauquet, Alfons ^a  

^a ESADE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Information processing; Knowledge workers; Learning communities; Learning processes; Sustainable change

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750985993     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470753408.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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