Improving organizational learning capability: Lessons from two case studies

The Learning Organization

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 216-227

  Goh, Swee C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

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EID: 84986066988     PISSN: 09696474     EISSN: 1758905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09696470310476981     Document Type: Article

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