Communities of practice in the business and organization studies literature

Information Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Murillo, Enrique ^a  

^a INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO AUTÓNOMO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

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