The social complexity of organizational learning: The dynamics of learning and organizing

Management Learning

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 277-295

  Antonacopoulou, Elena ^a   Chiva, Ricardo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dynamics; Organizational learning; Organizing; Social complexity; Tension

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547566331     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507607079029     Document Type: Conference Paper

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