Living the dream? Understanding partnering as emergent practice

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 923-933

  Bresnen, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Organizational learning; Partnering; Practice based perspective

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ACTIONS; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; ORGANIZATIONAL STUDIES; PROJECT-BASED ORGANIZATIONS;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

INTEGRATED APPROACH; LEARNING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77449094861     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: 1466433X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01446190902974145     Document Type: Article

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