Leadership and Learning: A Critical Reexamination of Senge's Learning Organization

Systemic Practice and Action Research

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-55

  Caldwell, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action research; Agency; Distributed leadership; Organizational change; Systems thinking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856108354     PISSN: 1094429X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11213-011-9201-0     Document Type: Article

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