If Nelson and Winter are only half right about tacit knowledge, which half? A Searlean critique of 'codification'

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 149-183

  Nightingale, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

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KNOWLEDGE; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 0038031728     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/12.2.149     Document Type: Article

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