The firm as a distributed knowledge system: A constructionist approach

Strategic Management Journal

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. WINTER, 1996, Pages 11-25

  Tsoukas, Haridimos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Distributed cognition; Interpretation; Organizational learning; Rules; Tacit knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002018120     PISSN: 01432095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smj.4250171104     Document Type: Article

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