Communities of practice: Facilitating social learning while frustrating organizational learning

Organizations as Knowledge Systems: Knowledge, Learning and Dynamic Capabilities

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 67-85

  Huysman, Marleen ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230524545_4     Document Type: Chapter

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