Economic metaphors and working knowledge: Enter the ‘cogito-economic’ subject

Human Resource Development International

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 87-97

  Rhodes, Carl ^a   Garrick, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Human resources; Knowledge management; Metaphor; Subjectivity; Working knowledge

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242318122     PISSN: 13678868     EISSN: 14698374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13678860110018803     Document Type: Article

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