Community organizational learning: Case studies illustrating a three-dimensional model of levels and orders of change

Journal of Community Psychology

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 303-328

  Perkins, Douglas D ^a,b   Dess, Kimberly D ^a   Cooper, Daniel G ^a   Jones, Diana L ^a   Armsread, Theresa ^a   Speer, Paul W ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34147206384     PISSN: 00904392     EISSN: 15206629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcop.20150     Document Type: Article

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