Learning barriers: A framework for the examination of structural impediments to organizational change

Human Resource Management

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 399-416

  Schimmel, Remco ^a   Muntslag, Dennis R ^b  

^a Enterprise Systems implementations   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Change management; Learning barriers; Organizational learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650227986     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20287     Document Type: Article

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