Odd couples or perfect matches? On the development of management knowledge packaged in the form of labels

Management Learning

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 443-452

  Örtenblad, Anders ^a  

^a NONE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

knowledge management; language; learning organization; organizational learning; paradox

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956118526     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507609356664     Document Type: Article

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