Motivation, Knowledge Transfer, and Organizational Forms

Organization Science

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 538-550

  Osterloh, Margit ^a   Frey, Bruno S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crowding Effects; Firm Theory; Knowledge Transfer; Motivation; Resource Based View; Tacit Knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034356913     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.11.5.538.15204     Document Type: Article

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