Methodological and thematic prescriptions for defining and measuring the organizational learning concept

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 263-276

  Templeton, Gary F ^a   Morris, Steven A ^b   Snyder, Charles A ^c   Lewis, Bruce R ^d  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construct; Domain definition; Instrumentation; Measurement; Methodology; Organizational learning

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING; RESEARCH;

CONSTRUCT; DOMAIN DEFINITION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 4344564045     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ISFI.0000037880.50909.09     Document Type: Article

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