Informal learning at work: Conditions, processes and logics

The SAGE Handbook of Workplace Learning

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 105-119

  Ellström, Per Erik ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781446200940.n8     Document Type: Chapter

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