Senge's many faces: Problem or opportunity?

Learning Organization

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 108-122

  Örtenblad, Anders ^a  

^a HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Learning organizations; Literature

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947331732     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470710726989     Document Type: Article

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