Organizational learning: Effects of (network) structure and (individual) strategy

Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 222-247

  Rodan, Simon ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective learning; Network learning; Vicarious learning

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE LEARNING; IDEA GENERATION; NETWORK LEARNING; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; ORGANIZATIONAL MEMORY; VICARIOUS LEARNING;

MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 47649112914     PISSN: 1381298X     EISSN: 15729346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10588-008-9028-0     Document Type: Article

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