Agency-based view of learning within the multinational corporation

Management Learning

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 259-274

  Saka Helmhout, Ayse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency; Knowledge transfer; Multinational corporations; Organizational learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650479008     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507609104339     Document Type: Article

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