Learning on the shop floor: The behavioural roots of organisational knowledge

Behavioral Issues in Operations Management: New Trends in Design, Management, and Methodologies

Volumn 9781447148784, Issue , 2013, Pages 179-198

  Hanson, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

BEHAVIORAL COMPONENT; CONFLICTING BELIEF; CULTURAL NORMS; LEARN+; ORGANIZATIONAL KNOWLEDGE; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; ORGANIZATIONAL SETTING; SHOPFLOORS;

FLOORS;

EID: 84901928123     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-4878-4_9     Document Type: Chapter

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