Individual learning and performance in communities of practice

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wan, Zeying ^a   Fang, Yulin ^b   Neufeld, Derrick J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; JOB PERFORMANCE; SYSTEM SCIENCES;

EDUCATION;

EID: 51449103241     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2008.199     Document Type: Conference Paper

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