Through a different lens: A survey of linear epistemological assumptions underlying HRD models

Human Resource Development Review

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 101-114

  Jayanti, Elizabeth Bechtel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

disruptive change; environmental turbulence; epistemology; model development; organizational myopia

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551641759     PISSN: 15344843     EISSN: 15526712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534484310386753     Document Type: Article

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