Reflexive Management Learning: An Integrative Review and a Conceptual Typology

Human Resource Development Review

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 227-253

  Cotter, Richard J ^a   Cullen, John G ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

management learning; reflection; reflexivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861830166     PISSN: 15344843     EISSN: 15526712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534484312438874     Document Type: Review

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