Behind the scenes of knowledge sharing in a Japanese bank

Human Resource Development International

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 465-485

  Kubo, Izumi ^a   Saka, Ayse ^a   Pan, Shan L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Community Model; Hrm; Japanese Management System; Knowledge Sharing; Social Networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038260758     PISSN: 13678868     EISSN: 14698374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13678860010025418     Document Type: Article

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