Organizational memory formation and its use in construction

Building Research and Information

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-79

  Ozorhon, Beliz ^a   Dikmen, Irem ^a   Talat Birgonul, M ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Decision making; Information management; Knowledge management; Organizational learning; Organizational memory; Strategic management; Turkey

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONNEL; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; ORGANIZATIONAL MEMORY; STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT; TURKEY;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 12744256744     PISSN: 09613218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0961321042000329413     Document Type: Article

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