Keeping things mindfully on track: Organizational learning under continuity

Management Learning

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 253-266

  Hernes, Tor ^a,b   Irgens, Eirik J ^c  

^a Department of International Economics and Management   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agency; leadership; mindfulness; organizational learning; process view; temporality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879382384     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507612445258     Document Type: Article

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