Organisational blogs: Benefits and challenges of implementation

Learning Organization

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 515-528

  Baxter, Gavin J ^a   Connolly, Thomas M ^a   Stansfield, Mark H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication technologies; Corporate communications; Employee communications; Learning organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957304569     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696471011082376     Document Type: Article

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