Structuring for organizational learning

The Learning Organization

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 173-186

  Hong, Jacky ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Innovation; Organizational learning; Organizational structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986065221     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: 1758905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696479910280631     Document Type: Article

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