Inter-organizational learning across levels: An object-oriented approach

Journal of Workplace Learning

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 343-358

  Toiviainen, Hanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Individual psychology; Learning methods; Learning organizations; Networking; Psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547778325     PISSN: 13665626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13665620710777093     Document Type: Article

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