Nurturing a learning organization in construction: A focus on strategic shift, organizational transformation, customer orientation and quality centered learning

Construction Innovation

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-126

  Love, Peter E d ^a   Huang, Jimmy C ^b   Edwards, David J ^c   Irani, Zahir ^d  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Change; Customer orientation; Learning organization; Organizational learning; Quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993065105     PISSN: 14714175     EISSN: 14770857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14714170410815033     Document Type: Article

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