Knowledge management for sustainable competitiveness in small and medium surveying practices

Structural Survey

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 7-21

  Egbu, Charles O ^a   Hari, Subashini ^a   Renukappa, Suresh H ^a  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Knowledge management; Small to medium sized enterprises; Surveying

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE CREATION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE MAPPING; SMALL TO MEDIUM ENTERPRISES; SUSTAINABLE COMPETITIVENESS;

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; SURVEYING;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 18144413902     PISSN: 0263080X     EISSN: 17586844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02630800510586871     Document Type: Article

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