Reaching beyond disciplines through collaboration: Academics' learning in a national multidisciplinary research programme

Journal of Workplace Learning

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 98-113

  Karlsson, Jan ^a   Anderberg, Elsie ^a   Booth, Shirley ^b   Odenrick, Per ^a   Christmansson, Marita ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Job satisfaction; Knowledge creation; Learning processes; Research; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 39849099280     PISSN: 13665626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13665620810852269     Document Type: Article

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