Organisational learning: the new management paradigm?

Management Decision

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 452-464

  Burnes, Bernard ^a   Cooper, Cary ^a   West, Penny ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Organizational change; Organizational culture; Organizational learning; Organizational structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986052276     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251740310479304     Document Type: Article

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