Emergent communities of practice in temporary inter-organisational partnerships

Learning Organization

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 50-61

  Juriado, Rein ^a   Gustafsson, Niklas ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Communities; Knowledge sharing; Partnership; Private sector organizations; Public sector organizations; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845653992     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470710718348     Document Type: Article

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