Beyond discontinuity: Expansive organizational learning remembered

Management Learning

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 319-336

  Engestrm, Yrj ^a,b   Kerosuo, Hannele ^a,b   Kajamaa, Anu ^a,b  

^a Department of Education   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Breaks; Bridging; Continuity; Discontinuity; Expansive learning; Narratives; Organizational memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547572416     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507607079032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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