Occupational clusters as determinants of organisational learning in the product innovation process

Journal of Workplace Learning

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 198-208

  Hyland, Paul W ^a   Gieskes, Jose F b ^b   Sloan, Terrence R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Culture; Organizational learning; Product Innovation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986165604     PISSN: 13665626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/EUM0000000005549     Document Type: Article

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