The team as a learning strategy: Three cases of team-based production in the Swedish manufacturing industry

Journal of Workplace Learning

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 480-496

  Kock, Henrik ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Learning methods; Production management; Sweden; Team learning; Team working

Indexed keywords

EID: 35948991803     PISSN: 13665626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13665620710831164     Document Type: Article

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