Organisational learning barriers in distributed product development: Observations from a multinational corporation

Journal of Workplace Learning

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 310-319

  Gieskes, José F B ^a   Hyland, Paul W ^b   Magnusson, Mats G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Corporate culture; Innovation; Multinationals; Organizational learning; Product development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986015063     PISSN: 13665626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13665620210449155     Document Type: Article

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