Working in the café: Lessons in group dialogue

Learning Organization

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 189-202

  Prewitt, Vana ^a  

^a Mount Olive College   (United States)

Author keywords

Group dynamics; Knowledge sharing; Learning organizations; Organizational effectiveness

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955653915     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696471111123252     Document Type: Article

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