Achieving innovation or the Holy Grail: managing knowledge or managing commitment?

International Journal of Technology Management

Volumn 20, Issue 5-8, 2000, Pages 819-838

  Waters, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Australian Grad Sch of Eng Innov   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

INNOVATION; KNOWLEDGE CREATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0033651429     PISSN: 02675730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijtm.2000.002897     Document Type: Article

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