Evidence for the network perspective on organizational learning

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1985-1994

  Pahor, Marko ^a   Škerlavaj, Miha ^a   Dimovski, Vlado ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SENSOR NETWORKS;

DIFFERENT SIZES; LEARNING NETWORKS; NETWORK ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURES; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING;

EDUCATION;

EID: 53949122660     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20912     Document Type: Review

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