Do organizations learn? Some implications for HRD of Bateson's levels of learning

Human Resource Development Review

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 13-31

  Tosey, Paul ^a   Mathison, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complexity; Emergence; Epistemology; Recursion

Indexed keywords

EID: 39049131524     PISSN: 15344843     EISSN: 15526712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534484307312524     Document Type: Article

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