Complicating the organization: A new prescription for the learning organization?

Management Learning

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 275-287

  Holmqvist, Mikael ^a,b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Exploitation; Exploration; Organizational learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650496657     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507609104340     Document Type: Article

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