Building a learning organization in a projectbased environment

Management of Knowledge in Project Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 133-154

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

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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