Measuring organizational learning from errors: Development and validation of an integrated model and questionnaire

Management Learning

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 511-536

  Putz, Daniel ^a   Schilling, Jan ^b   Kluge, Annette ^c   Stangenberg, Constanze ^d  

^a AachenMünchener ^*  (Germany)

^b NSI University of Applied Administrative Sciences Hanover   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Learning climate; learning from errors; organizational climate; organizational learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885974994     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507612444391     Document Type: Article

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