Designing Organizational Memories: Concept and Method

Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-55

  Wijnhoven, Fons ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Core competence; Knowledge management; Knowledge based systems; Organizational memory; Organizational memory design

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002320822     PISSN: 10919392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327744joce0801_2     Document Type: Article

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