Investigating Team Learning in a Military Context

Vocations and Learning

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 75-100

  Veestraeten, Marlies ^a   Kyndt, Eva ^a,b   Dochy, Filip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Military teams; Psychological safety; Shared mental models; Team learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896546536     PISSN: 1874785X     EISSN: 18747868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12186-013-9107-3     Document Type: Article

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