Transregional institutional learning in Europe: Prerequisites, actors and limitations

Regional Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 499-511

  Wink, Rüdiger ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aeronautics; Benchmarking; Multinational companies; Transregional learning

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; EUROPEAN UNION; LEARNING; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; POLICY MAKING; REGIONAL POLICY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EUROPE;

EID: 77951689916     PISSN: 00343404     EISSN: 13600591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00343400802331304     Document Type: Article

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