"... It's a general meeting, it's not for us ...": Internal communication and organizational learning - An interpretive approach

Corporate Communications

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 271-286

  Yeomans, Liz ^a  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communications; Learning organizations; Phenomenology; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 50249110969     PISSN: 13563289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13563280810893652     Document Type: Article

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