Practitioner perspectives on the gap between research and practice: What gap?

Advances in Developing Human Resources

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 454-471

  Keefer, Jeffrey M ^a   Stone, Sophia J ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community of practice; Human resource development; Practitioner research; Research and practice gap; Scholar practitioner

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349805152     PISSN: 15234223     EISSN: 15523055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1523422309345122     Document Type: Article

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