Cognitive and practice-based theories of organizational knowledge and learning: Incompatible or complementary?

Management Learning

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 413-435

  Marshall, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognition; Practice; Project management; Schemas; Social norms and rules

Indexed keywords

EID: 49549087942     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507608093712     Document Type: Article

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