How Healthy is Your ‘Community of Practice’?

Probation Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-66

  Lynch, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

communities of practice; learning organization; organizational culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993661558     PISSN: 02645505     EISSN: 17413079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0264550504041377     Document Type: Article

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