The Justification of Knowledge Tracking the Translations of Quality

Management Learning

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 497-517

  Giroux, Hélène ^a   Taylor, James R ^a,b  

^a HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Fads; Knowledge management; Organizational learning; Quality; Rhetoric; Sociology of translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141955652     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507602334006     Document Type: Article

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