Islands of practice: Conflict and a lack of 'Community' in situated learning

Management Learning

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 551-568

  Macpherson, Allan ^a   Clark, Brenton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Identification; Mediating artefacts; Participation; Practice; Situated learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350540429     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507609340810     Document Type: Article

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