Toward a practice perspective on strategic organizational learning

Learning Organization

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 195-221

  Voronov, Maxim ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Management power; Organizational politics; Strategic management; Workplace training

Indexed keywords

EID: 41749087384     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470810852348     Document Type: Article

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