The silent and the silenced in organizational knowing and learning

Management Learning

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 569-585

  Blackman, Deborah ^a   Sadler Smith, Eugene ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Silence; Tacitness; Voice

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350524948     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507609340809     Document Type: Article

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