Management learning and the corporate MBA: Situated or individual?

Management Learning

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 440-457

  Legge, Karen ^a   Sullivan Taylor, Bridgette ^a   Wilson, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Business schools; Corporate MBAs; Inter organizational relationships (IORs); Pedagogy; Situated learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548863157     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507607080577     Document Type: Article

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