Dual Information Systems: Supporting Organizational Working and Learning by Making Organizational Memory Transparent

Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce

Volumn 9, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 205-232

  Käkölä, Timo K ^b   Koota, Kalle I ^a  

^a ORION CORPORATION   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Act orientation; Dual information systems; Hyperknowledge framework; Hyperknowledge organization; Interpretive flexibility; Knowledge creation nets; Organizational; Organizational creation of knowledge; Organizational interfaces; Organizational learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042492450     PISSN: 10919392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327744joce0902&3_7     Document Type: Article

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